What America Has Come To
Looking back at the history of American presidents, there is a series of patterns that should be noticeable to almost every person- the occurrences of scandals during numerous presidencies. We had Kennedy's mysterious assassination, Nixon's Watergate, Hillary Clinton's Whitewater incident, and today there is Clinton's "Zippergate". Presidents' take an oath when sworn into office, and part of this oath takes away their right to a private life. Radio talk show hosts, journalists of all types, television news reporters and now the even more menacing type of media, the Internet, giving the people of the world a look into the President's private life. Each type of media is competing to draw the attention of the public by creating sensational titles for articles and placing quotes in such a way so as to appear more disturbing than they in fact are. Prying their ways into the President's life. The press becomes aware of everything happening behind the Oval Office doors and spreads the mayhem to the American people and beyond. As presidents struggle with the press, they become exasperated because they cannot control the media, even though they do control a large amount of the news agenda. Presidents have many rights, and so does the med
ia. Looking at the twentieth century the audience has seen a change. The media no longer respects the Presidents by the media. President Clinton had no right to have an affair and the media had no right to exploit the event. News companies of all kind have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ways to distribute their information on the Internet. Such ideas have benefits: it is an easy and instant way to get the news you want and then compare the different accounts across the nation. CNN, The Washington Post and other news carriers have had to result in lawsuits so as to terminate news links such as Drudge's and WorldNetDaily. Their only excuse was that they did not want ordinary people to be able to compare their accounts with other newspaper accounts. With Drudge's unexpected success the White House has tried, unsuccessfully so far, to wipe Drudge out and won't be happy unless they do so. If Drudge is taken out of the news game then the news will certainly become a lot less interesting and a little less free then it already is. The problem may just be that Drudge makes journalist feel uninspired and apprehensive. The Clinton-Lewinsky story is the same story line, abhorrent and loathsome. While watching television after only a few days into the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal reports and radio hosts were utilizing such words as "resign" and "impeach." Hearing these words so early into the investigation I started to wonder who is really deciding the outcome of the trial. One would have no trouble finding sleaze on the White House's newest mess, but the real difficulty is avoiding it. While looking over the newspaper articles and listening to the news reports I found many of the reports to be redundant and the major newspapers have become slow in keeping up with the trial. Maybe the one problem with the newspapers, reports and Internet sites is censorship and morality. Most articles have gone past an invisible line and I have found them to be outrageous and all class that was once there has been lost. Where is the logic in posting one of Mr. Clinton's personal letters, such as the following one from Kathleen Willey: Will the truth about the scandal, if it is ever known, be torn to shreds just like the lies being told by all media types? I seriously doubt that, because no one will ever know the truth except Ms. Lewinsky and Mr. Clinton. Whose business is it to know? The media can invent as many lies as the Internet, but will it? I doubt this, too. 4) Cost. It costs $.50 to buy a newspaper on weekdays and $1.50 on Sundays. Why pay the cost of a newspaper when you can look it up whenever you wish on your own computer? No newsstands to fight with, no TV's to operate or satellites to fool with.
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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