By JC Gillett, Reporter
When the TV turns on, it’s there, it’s also on the front page of every major newspaper. These targeted audiences may already know what I’m talking about; the presidential race is the biggest thing being covered in the media to date, and it’s not getting any younger.
“Getting information out early is good but only publishing bad things will push people away,” Senior Jackie Smith said.
There is just too much media coverage for the news today. It seems when a big or major event happens in Chicago, there’s over four helicopters from different news stations hovering over the top, along with reporters from every newspaper on the scene.
“I think that the news organizations are too big and have too much time to kill. They just flood things to death. There is too much media for the news,” Wiley Overly, Elburn resident, said.
Sitting around for four hours on end watching the same news channel cover what this political aide said, or who did what, left me wondering: what would happen if the media ran the presidential race so much that people got burned out? And-when voting time came around, people didn’t vote because they had already had enough of the elections for the year?
“I think that the people determined to will vote, but the ones who are not too involved will get pushed away,” Don Christensen, Elburn resident, said.
There are only six democratic primaries this election.
“It is still a close race, but Obama has the advantage,” Scott Parillo, government teacher, said.