Exploratory Synthesis Essay
Dy21367
Running Head: WEB-BASED MEDIA'S COMMITMENT TO POLITICAL
MISPERCEPTIONS IN U.S. OFFICIAL RACES 1
Davion Young
Mrs.Christie Mclendon
ENG 1123
March 13 2021
Web-Based Media's Commitment to Political Misperceptions in U.S. Official Races
WEB-BASED MEDIA'S COMMITMENT TO POLITICAL MISPERCEPTIONS IN U.S.
OFFICIAL RACES 2
This paper focuses on social media’s role coverage of the 2012, 2016, and 2021
presidential election United States. The documentation centers main stream of media
reporting that was adverse for all the candidates, however largely trailed Donald Trump’s
program: when informing over Hillary Clinton, reporting mainly dedicated on the several
scandals connected to the Clinton emails and Foundation as observed by researchers such as
Williams et al., (2019). When focused on Trump, major substantive issues, primarily
immigration, were prominent. Certainly, immigration transpired as a dominant subject in the
campaign serving as an important subject for the Trump campaigns.
From the article, there is a revelation that media composition and structure on both the
left and right are quite diverse. The top media on the left and right are rooted in diverse
journalistic and traditional practices. Based on the conservative part, more consideration was
given to the pro-Trump, extremely biased media outlets. On the side of the liberal party, by
contrast, the focus of magnitude was made mainly of longer-position media administrations
submerged in the practices and traditions of impartial journalism. This analysis supports texts
of an article on a division in USA politics that center on the unequal arrangements between
the right and left, instead of reviews that see division as an overall historical occurrence,
focused on technology and other systems that apply over the partisan polarization.
For instance, the Clinton drive to express her campaigns on policy, competence, and
experience positions was overpowered by reporting purported improprieties connected
through the Clinton emails and Foundation. Reporting of Trump-related trade, immigration,
and jobs were better than on his scandals. Immigration appeared as the prominent substantive
matter of the campaigns. Primarily, the Trump campaigns applied a hard-stand
anti-immigration standpoint to differentiate Trump’s field from GOP competitors. Later on,
migration was a segment subject between the right and left. Pro-Trump media foundations
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reinforced this with race-centric, sensationalist reporting of immigration dedicated to
terrorism, crime, disease, and Muslims' fear.
From the article observations, it infers that solving the American sphere might be
much difficult. Consequently, the more extensively circulated descriptions of the post-truth
instant false news sites looking for Facebook promotion, Russia appealing in the propaganda
battle, or data overload leading tangled voters making them unable to differentiate truths from
an untrue or deceptive passage which these are unpredictable using democratic principles,
and the necessity for interferences to reply to them remains less or more indisputable as noted
by scholars such as Westney, (2020). If profit-determined false news remains the problem,
resolutions like commending Facebook and Google to apply a technical system to ascertain
false news sites to stop them by repudiating them publicizing revenue and reducing their
places' perceptibility appear on their look, not to clash with democratic principles.
Equally, if a distant authority is looking to affect the democratic procedure by
propagandistic ways, then taking the intelligence society limit how this will be done and
silence it normatively smooth, as emphasized by scholars such as Garrett (2019). If the public
is tangled, then creating instruments will give them fact-proving metrics, whereas they select
and peruse stories might aid. These methods might add to resolving the bewilderment in the
public space; however, the observations infer that they must be checking on the limits of the
main challenge.
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work cited
Garrett, R. K. (2019). Social media's contribution to political misperceptions in U.S.
Presidential elections. PloS one, 14(3), e0213500.
Williams, H. E., Bowman, S. W., & Jung, J. T. (2019). The limitations of government
databases for analyzing fatal officer-involved shootings in the United States. Criminal
Justice Policy Review, 30(2), 2
Westney, Z. V. (2020). The Social Media Machines: An Investigation of the Effect of Trust
Moderated by Disinformation on Users’ Decision-Making Process. 01-222.