Monday, November 1, 2010

Attack ads

When I get bored with school work, I enjoy watching a YOUTUBE or HULU video or two to refresh my brain. Lately though, I've been fairly frustrated with both of those services though. A new part of the YOUTUBE and HULU experience are ads before super popular videos. For instance, tonight I watched "Single Ladies", and sure as you're born with the millions and millions of hits that video has had, there was an advertisement at the start, and like so many lately, it was about the Ohio governor race. A video later, I find myself seeing another advertisement about the Ohio governor race...that says the exact opposite of the video that I saw before it. It is unbelievable to me that in a span of less than ten minutes, I can see two advertisements for two different candidates--both swearing up and down that the other one is worse than the one you should be voting for. How confusing! As part of the inattentive public for this race, I don't know what to think when I hear two advertisements saying the total opposite points that one says. In our book it said that (I do believe) right around 52% voted in the 2008 presidential election. I am slowly but surely coming to the conclusion that this is because of how insanely polarized the two candidates let advertisements make them seem, people are simply too confused which one of them is being honest and the other a liar, so they just disregard them all together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY&ob=av3e

1 comment:

  1. The you tube advertisements truly have been ridiculous. Some of the advertisements against both governors are misleading. I try and not to pay attention to any statistics or in cite quotation simple because I have watched The Daily Show far too long. The Daily Show always seemed to show the true side of attack ads. Stewart not only points out the misleading content of the attack ad but also points out the mistakes the other candidate has also done. I believe when looking at any advertisement this point of view should be structured before obtain an opinion. Fight for sanity.

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