Dear Media,
What's this thing about? The big thing. The thing that's happening in a few months or so. The thing with all those well-dressed people talking at each other. You know...
The election.
What's it about?
Let's do a little experiment. Let's assume I've been a very busy guy for the past decade or so. Maybe I'd been piling on school work, or working a couple of jobs starting in the late nineties and ending yesterday. Or maybe I'd been homeless and I just back on my feet, so I bought a computer and a TV on the way home. Or maybe I'd been in space for fifteen years, and I returned early this morning wondering what happened to gas prices, and why Chris Elliot wasn't a bigger star by now. Or maybe I was just lazy, or wasn't paying attention. Whatever. The point is I missed a lot. But I know an election's coming up, so I want to turn to the Media. You're not part of the government, and you're not entertainment. You'll help me figure out
what's going on, right? Both candidates have nice, comforting and impressive websites, but I can't exactly trust those sites, can I? If I was running for president and someone asked me who the best man for the job was, I'd say me, and I'd talk about how qualified I was all over my big website, even if I pretty clearly wasn't. I have no reason to assume the candidates wouldn't do the same.
Let's get some truth on, Media!
I'll go to
CNN's website. CNN handles news. There's a
politics section and everything. Each guy even gets his own page. Let's start with John McCain.