Taryn's Blog

Voting: a right for all citizens of the United States in which your voice has an impact on the decisions being made in our government. Because our votes directly impact the people put in power and office, this is one of the most direct ways we are able to be connected to our government. There are numerous ways that elections influence the political beliefs of the people. The beliefs of officials being elected get to us through elections and election coverage. What we hear from the officials is understood and synthesized through our own personal lenses and experiences. Our personal lenses are shaped by factors such as race, gender, and stances on other issues in our world. If a Republican says something a person doesn’t like or resonate with, there is a high possibility that the person won’t identify as a Republican and vote for their party. In this blog post, I chose to write about the 2016 Presidential Election. The two candidates, being Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, were runnin

The media seems to be one of the most popular ways to interact and connect with what’s going on in our government, considering all the people complaining on Twitter about things they don’t like. However, media doesn’t just cover social media, rather things like magazines, news papers, online articles, radio, television, etc. All of these sources of media link us to our government in many different ways, making the media the largest linkage institution because of how widely available it is. All of our news comes from media and everyone that partakes in political discussion does so through media. Because media has a way of being relevant to many aspects of our lives, they have the ability to shape public opinion and how the public views certain political issues. The two articles I chose to analyze in this blogpost are CNN and Fox News, two news sources that believe in two very different things. CNN content is geared more towards liberals while Fox News content is geared towards conser