t, and to make sure the government was there to consistently support the poor. In order to do this, at the 1984 Democratic Convention, Walter Mondale announced that he would raise taxes on the American people. The people were outraged, conservatives went wild, and the press sat quiet, leaving their criticism to a minimum. They were not as bothered by this news as one would think. Perhaps they were supportive of Mondale because, they thought taxes needed to be raised in order to help with the debt caused by new government programs and the rising costs of current ones. If this were the case then one would expect them to praise a conservative such as George Bush when he raised taxes in response to pressure from a Democratic Congress. Instead, they only pointed out that he had gone back on a promise, and refused to admit that what he did was put the economy on the road to becoming the strong system it is today. As for Reagan, when Election Day finally came around, the president had been reelected with 59% of the popular vote, and carried 49 states. He only lost Mondale’s home state, and even that by a small margin. Despite the large majority that Reagan won with, he received no help from the White House Correspondents. Out of ten of these correspondents surveyed, all ten voted for Mondale while zero voted for Reagan (US News & World Report). At a time when the American people were clearly united, the media went against the mainstream and voted for the liberal. The American public was backing Reagan’s policies, but the media was not. Every morning and night, people turn on their televisions to be informed of what is going on in their country. Instead of getting the simple facts in reporting, they receive the media’s personal spin. Many Washington reporters do not simply come out and say they are in favor of a certain policy, yet they deliver information in a way which makes the alternative appear absurd. “The new Repu...
