Hilllary’s Laugh; The Media’s Role and Influence
A blog posted at http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/ discussed, in significant depth, media attention focused on Hillary Clinton’s laugh. Apparently, based on the media attention it has received, it’s an important political issue.
The blog highlights an issue worthy of considreration. The tremendous impact of the media in this democracy. I have never bought into the repeated charges from the far right that the media is liberal. Generally, the proof is just not there.
What is true, however, is that there is entirely too much focus on issues that don’t amount to a hill of beans (like Hillary’s laugh). Here we have an important election near at hand - American’s need the media to act responsibly and not partisanly to be sure that every American knows where each candidate stands on all of the substantive issues. Stories about a candidates dress, or laugh, or what they had for breakfast - are a waste of precious air space and time. The media should make it their collective personal mission to see to it that a vast majority of average Americans know who the candidates are and where they stand on substantive issues. The media really does play a very important role in American politics - it is to educate and to inform - and not to trivialize and diffuse attention from the substantive issues. Let’s hope they do their job during this next election. If they do we will be hearing alot more about important substantive issues that affect average Americans.
