It's really fascinating to turn on any news channel and just watch five minutes of their election coverage. As we discussed in class, the media, and society in general likes to place people into easily relatable situations, and so we get terms like "underdog", or "up and comer", because we are familiar with those terms from movies and books, they are ingraned into us from an early age. What's shocking though, and something that the Daiily Show constantly lampoons is how quickly the narratives can be switched around, alnog with the fact that the narrative that one news show applies to a candidate can compltely contradict what the other news show is giving them.
Even the candidates themselves are guilty of this. Of course we all recall the last presidential election and whole flip flopper thing, but just recently as Hillary was making the rounds through Phidadelphia she began to describe herself as "Rocky Like", because it not only creates a nice bite size quote for her campaign to use, but because everyone automatically knows the story of Rocky and what she's alluding to.
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