Watch some of the election coverage and discuss what you think. Feel free to comment on almost anything involving the coverage. My suggestion is to watch some early coverage; then watch around 10 and then the next day. This will give you a feel for what was done. Then comment here.
What an upset. For the election having less turnout compared to the past 20 years this is one absolutely exciting election. At the beginning of the coverage most news reporting stations following the election had Clinton. They kept saying Trump needs this and this and this to win but look what happened in the end. Most of the reporters were also talking about the long lines at most polling stations and who was voting for who. This could not have been more false compared to the final turnout for the final election. It was fun to watch how the Clinton administration was at utmost confidence when the election began to go in their favor. They seemed to think they had it wrapped up and it was going to be no contest. Far from the truth. As the Trump administration began their dominance throughout most of the swing states you saw Clinton supporters crying and wondering what is happening. To see that after the election was over and the final tally in Trump's favor, it was a little disappointing that Clinton did not make a conceding speech last night. As it was also a surprise to see Trump be civil and humble in his congratulatory speech. But after the fact, people are still completely in shock of what happened during the election. Some news stations are reporting of Clinton supporters kind of jumping on the bandwagon of Trump because they are not technically supporting what they did before the Clinton administration lost and they are kind of in denial. All in all what an election and I am sure this will be one presidential characterization attacking election for the record books.
ReplyDeleteI feel as though the election coverage was pretty ridiculous. They claimed that someone had already won a state when there was less than 1% of the vote even being reported. This was the first presidential election that I was personally able to vote in, so it was quite exciting. I feel as though the news stations were trying to predict the winner while not actually knowing. This can cause a lot of confusion if you do not read all of the numbers. The coverage the next day was, I feel, kind of minimal for what had happened. All in all I feel as though the news stations do not cover what is actually happening in the election. The newspapers as well released headlines such as "Presidential election, too close to call," because they needed to report on something, but they did not want to spew the truth.
ReplyDeleteThis was the first time I was ever actually able to stay up and watch the election results, and to be completely honest it seemed like the news tried to over dramatize the results almost for television ratings. All in all though it was exciting and one for the record books.
ReplyDeleteI was only able to catch a little bit of the election coverage and all of Trump's acceptance speech. I was surprised to see trump win, and contrary to popular belief, I think we'll all be fine. the commentary on his acceptance speech was similar to my own thoughts, " Wow! He's actually being civil." hopefully that's the kind of behavior The U.S. will be seeing from President-Elect Trump for the next 4 years. My only concerns as of now is Trump's view on climate change and vice president-elect Pence's religious ideologies.
ReplyDeleteThe day following the election I heard a lot of protests and hate rhetoric towards our future president, from the media as well as angry citizens. So many people want to hop on bandwagons it seems, the I'm moving to Canada bandwagon, The it's the end of america bandwagon, The it doesn't matter anyway bandwagon. I cant log on to Facebook, stroll through campus or go out to eat without hearing one of those sentences from somebody's mouth. Please let's think for ourselves, develop informed opinions, and escape this bandwagony echo chamber a lot of us so comfortably fall into.
Trump will be representing our beloved country for the next four years. Let's fully support him until we need to oppose him if that day comes.
I watched the media become shell-shocked throughout the night. Hillary was leading in polls by a wide margin and most media outlets were set up for a Trump loss and Hillary win. But then, states began to fall toward Trump's side, and eventually the media came to the realization that Trump was going to clinch and be our 45th president. They talked about it being the most major upset in history. Leading up to his speech, many talked about how he would govern and if his temperament was indeed presidential. They were surprised how humble he was during his acceptance speech. Meanwhile, many tears were shed in the Hillary side. The next day, the media broke down trump's win, saying the white America rallied around him and that he would rely heavily on the vice president Mike Pence. I was noticing a change in tune by the media, they obviously were shocked to see trump win and took steps to show you how he won, and what to expect in the presidential season.
ReplyDeleteI watched the polls until around midnight and watched a very small amount of the news coverage mostly because I knew that the media would address Trump victory in surprise. I don't believe that they thought he had a chance. I have been reading some articles of incidents that happened shortly after the announcement of his victory and it has painted millennials and those that are against Trump in bad lighting. A lot of the articles were dedicated to how weak minded this generation is because they are truly upset that America voted for a president that is into white washing. I also found it humorous, in a depressing way, that the day after the election, the Canadian Immigration website crashed from the amount of visits from U.S. citizens.
ReplyDeleteI have never been into the election as much as this year because this is one that will effect my future immensely. Watching the polls was very shocking to me as it was portrayed that Trump did not have a chance to win. When the results were coming it it began looking like Trump had a good chance. The reporters were shocked and could not believe what they were witnessing. After the results it shows that the media can make people believe what they want. But I believe this will be a great change because Trump is not strictly a politician unlike Hilary Clinton. Overall some people are upset with the election but rioting and protesting will not do anything for this country besides continue to tear it apart. Everyone needs to support Trump now that he will be representing our country for the next 4 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen watching the news before our president was chosen; a lot of the media believed that Mrs. Clinton was going to be our next president, we soon found out that it was not Clinton that became our 45th president but Mr. Trump. I did vote in this election and as my first time voting for president i would have thought America could have chosen better people but it is what it is. I strongly believe in giving everyone a chance to show their true selves and I'm hoping that having Mr. Trump in office he will show not only our country but the world that he is not just a rude person and that he has great ideas. I believe everyone should be coming together in this; not starting protest and riots because all that does it make us even more un-united. Our country needs to come together and support Donald Trump, because whether people agree with him being our president or not he is and will be for the next four years. I hope our country can become what is once was, a country of love and jobs for working american people ( i am not saying immigrants and others shouldn't have jobs!). We can work as a team and make our country better for everyone living it it and i hope that is what we will do !
ReplyDeleteThe media made the election out to be completely favored for Hilary. Every poll projection that I saw had her winning by large margins, so how is it that every poll and media outlet got it wrong? From square one I believed this election was bought and paid for across the media. At times the media seemed to side with Trump, other times with Hilary. I believe the media covered the highest bidder. That being said, it seemed like neither candidate used the media positively. It seemed like every advertisement, every announcement, every debate was a mudslinging contest of the worst kind. Scandals, emails, sexual misconduct, accountability, trustworthiness, nothing ever seemed to truly touch on the topics that needed to be discussed. Why is that? Because a story sells better than the truth and today's consumer oriented people would much rather hear the new "juicy gossip" over the issues that matter.
ReplyDeleteI watched both NBC and CNN coverage of the election. I watched them both at the same time, and noticed that there was not too much of a difference in reporting (besides the timing of each of the networks calling states). CNN did seem more reluctant to call states. I think CNN was aiming to be absolutely sure that a candidate won the states that they called, and I thought that was odd. I would think that news networks would be quick to call states. They both seemed to lean towards Hillary Clinton, because the news anchors seemed frustrated when Donald Trump was winning states. I'm definitely surprised, yet unsurprised with the results. I thought that Hillary Clinton would win, because I was certain she had Pennsylvania in the bag. I thought the most shocking part of the coverage was Donald Trump winning Pennsylvania. I was not expecting that at all.
ReplyDeleteThe media before the day of the election was in favor of Hillary, and it had been for awhile. Many of the news stations that I had seen before election were covering more negative stories about him and putting her to the side, which, to me, put more emphasis on making him look like a monster. The radio was still playing all of the commercials talking about how good of a role model Hillary was. During the election, all the stations that we flipped between were in shock over the results that were coming in. Many of the people on the shows were talking about how they were in shock that the voters turned the way they did because she was predicted to blow him out of the water, but the opposite happened. After the election, all we have seen in the media is all of the protests. People didn't get what they want, so they decided to start burning flags and destroying things. There have been many many many elections, and the people who are on the losing side, aren't happy, but I haven't ever heard of protests that have been as violent and ridiculous as the ones about Trump.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I want to mention that I was in shock that Trump won by the amount that he did, because the media was indeed in favor of Hillary. It is without a doubt that they predicted that Hillary would win by a landslide. I think the media may have created some false hope within the United States for the democrats. I think the democrats think that they had it in the bag for so long that when they found out that the opposite extreme was true, some went crazy (legitimately). I do not think that the media should display who they think will win before the night of the election because it leads people to false hope, especially when the other extreme happens. I have never seen an election like this, and have talked to many other people who say they have never seen such an outburst of rage after an election like this. The media has their job cut out for them for a little while, they have a lot of thinking to do when it comes to ethics with this situations and deciding what to broadcast and what to not put on the air.
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