This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to render its ruling on the constitutionality of Obama Care. However, the media coverage of the ruling and the resulting political fallout will be the same. Regardless of the ruling, both republicans and democrats will try to spin the Supreme Court’s ruling in a way that benefits their side. Meanwhile, the news media will overflow with coverage concerning the political impact of the ruling, but will ultimately fail to explain the ruling divorced from the typical horse-race coverage. Horse race refers to the news media’s focus on which candidate is up or down in the latest public opinion polls. My prediction is that the news media, regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obama Care, will bombard its audience with poll numbers for the next several days along with a bloviated analysis of said poll numbers with a pretentious and misguided sense of accomplishment for delivering what they consider to be the news. Get ready for several weeks of useless analysis and blatant political spin.
–TERRANCE MULLINS
The article is called “Get Ready for Several Weeks of Useless Analysis,” and the word useless is an adjective that refers to the tedious process of our American goverment. This is significant, showing how the founding fathers of our constitution intended the government to operate in a slow and sometimes seemingly inneficient manner, which prevents people from abusing power.
This article is, therefore, an example of the “Madisonian System” of checks and balances because the power in government is kept separate.
For instance they are talking about abama’s plan for helth care and politics have to discuss if it is constitutional to be aprove.
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While the Supreme Court is expected to render its ruling on Obama Care, the news media is going to bombard the viewers with poll numbers on the horse race on the latest public opinion polls. It is bringing a lot of media on Obama Care, but at the same time viewers are watching opinions and what the media feeds them, not the truth.
The news media did live up to all of the hype as expected, it covered the ruling on Obama Care in the normal fashion as it passed in a close 5 to 4 vote. Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote in order to uphold the passing of Obama Care. It was originally believed he would vote it down but surprisingly he agreed to uphold the legislation. I love the quote by Thomas Jefferson as he famously stated, “If I had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the later.” (page 222) The media holds our government accountable for their actions. There is no longer the ability to hide how each representative casts their votes or in fact if don’t vote at all.