US Presidential Election’s Media Disaster*

By Sol W. Sanders

 

Perhaps not since 1936 has there been such a failing through prejudicial media reporting of a presidential election.

 

Then, of course, the enormously popular weekly, The Literary Digest, predicted a strong victory for the Republican conservative candidate Kansas Governor Alf Landon against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR bidding for a second term was pushing a radical program against traditional opposition in his own Party, the Congress and the courts. The landslide victory for Roosevelt that followed – every state but Maine and Vermont that became something of a joke – so invalidated the magazine’s reputation that it collapsed and disappeared.

 

One has to wonder if such a fate would befall one of the many media sources today or whether it would just continue to blather on.  For what we see in a media today is so slanted that it has further alienated an already antagonistic general public, which long since lost all respect and faith in it......To Read More....