Election Reflection

Student Vote Reflections

The Media Plays a Large Role in Determining The Outcome of an Election

In my opinion the media plays a huge part in student vote. For example, a lot of students listen to the radio or watch TV and on these Medias there are advertisements telling you about why you should vote for a certain party and not vote for the other parties. Being a student I would know that a lot of students believe what they hear on the radio or TV, so if they hear an advertisement saying vote for NDP because all of the other parties don’t follow through with their promises, a student would probably believe it. Also, some advertisements get their message across to the audience better than others so students might understand one ad more and just go with the simple vote because they understand it. Some advertisements for a parties campaign have a cool ad so some students might think, well that was sick! I am going to vote for that party!

In my opinion media shouldn’t be allowed be used to put down other parties at all during elections because it really changes people’s opinions on whop there going to vote for. For example, if a student is watching TV and they see a very embarrassing ad about the NDP the student might not vote for the NDP because of that one ad. Even when the NDP could be the most beneficial vote for that student. I think that media would be a perfectly fine as long as parties are not making inappropriate ads about other parties and there is an even amount of ads about each party. Also as long as the ads are not giving people false information saying they are going to do something when they aren’t going to do it. Some parties might lie about what they’re going to do just to get votes (which they will) then people will vote for them and they won’t do what they’re going to do.

Overall I think that media would be perfectly fine to be used to advertise your party as long as the ads follow these rules. 1. You can’t give false information to the audience 2. Do not put down other parties in your advertisement 3. All parties should make the same amount of ads 4. When you say you’re going to do something for the economy, DO IT! If parties can not follow these very simple rules I think that media is not good during elections. And seeing that parties don’t follow these rules I think that media is not a good thing during elections. Media gives false information, puts down other parties, say they’re going to do something when they aren’t and some parties have more advertising than others.