12 share of American Voters
Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities are an influential Demographic in American Politics, due to the platform from which they shout down at the rest of the country. Ostensibly Impartial Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities must maintain a facade of journalistic integrity, never hinting, implying, internal memo-ing, plagiarizing, regurgitating, special commenting or otherwise betraying the fact that they are totally in the can for one of the two major Political Candidates.
Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities are able to maintain this illusion by never covering policy issues in any depth, because that might expose their extreme political leanings. Instead, Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities focus exclusively on critical issues of the moment, like whether or not a Presidential Candidate is wearing an American flag pin, or forgot the fact that Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for the last fifteen years.
Presidential Campaigns know that they can count on Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities to seize on the most scandalous rumors that exist in the ether of American Politics.1
There is a symbiotic relationship between Presidential Campaigns and Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities because so many Americans get their news exclusively from these Talking Heads. What used to be known as “free media” by Political Campaigns, is now more accurately referred to as: “earned media.”
Ostensibly Impartial, Quasi-Journalist TV Personalities will have a critical impact on the 2008 Election, but only as long as Americans continue to tune in.
You be the judge…
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1 See Also: Ambulance Chasers
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