I was really upset by something I heard on the radio yesterday. There was a group of DJs talking about a particular presidential candidate, how wonderful he was, etc. One of the DJ's moved from talking about him to talking about how she (the DJ) had voted in years past. One of the other DJ's started talking about how "all of that stuff is online, you know, who you vote for is public record and anyone can look it up." The first one responded with a, "what, really? who anyone voted for, you can find that?" and the other DJ insisted - not meanly, just matter of factly. Not only did she insist, but (this is what really bothered me), she was like, "here, I'll show you right now, on the computer."
It seemed like it was a really flimsy ploy to get people to support the candidate in question, as in "people will know if you don't vote for the candidate we support, so you should go support him." Nobody called in to correct what they said - or if they did, they weren't allowed on the air. Nobody really challenged the statement, aside from the first DJ saying, "Really?"
Either people are really ignorant, or really manipulative. Either way, it didn't give me the warm and fuzzies about the democratic process.
No comments:
Post a Comment