The article that I chose is from CNN.com titled Obama breaks promise on campaign finance. News anchor Campbell Brown talks about how at the beginning of Obama stated how he would accept public finance and work with his Republican running to make sure they were both operating within the same financial limits. Brown states that Obama has raised well over $600 million since the beginning of his campaign. Brown also states how Obama explained this broken promise by saying, “That the system is broken and that Republicans know how to work the system to their advantage. He argued he would need all that cash to fight the ruthless attacks of 527s, those independent groups like the Swift Boat Veterans”. Brown ends her argument by, making what I think is a harsh comment about Obama saying that he is now “rolling in down… and he is getting there in part on a broken promise”. When it comes to the being presented with a debate versus objective information, I feel that this argument is entirely a debate about Obama’s finance. Yes Brown does present her audience with some objective information regarding the amount of money Obama has made thus far and about Obama planning to speak to the American people Wednesday night, but she is merely debating why she feels Obama has broken his financial promise. Even though I may not know much about the financial issues that go along with politics, I do know that this article is very well bias. It is very evident that Brown is a McCain supporter. I can see this by how she presents her argument and how she speaks of Obama. This may very well work in persuading those who are McCain supporters as well as she is, but being a very big supporter of Barack Obama and it just seems very bias. So what if Obama is making a lot more money with his campaign, if McCain was doing the same I honestly feel that it would not be a very big issue. Obama has to make money in order to build a strong campaign to win this election and I feel that he has done a great job so far. To respond to Brown’s argument, I say this to all who attack Obama about issues like this, let’s look at what these candidates can do for our country and not focus so much on these irrelevant issues. Brown only has two resources to support her claim and I feel that it makes her argument look less reliable.
When it comes to Lasch’s argument about modern day journalism, I do not agree with him saying that if information is not debated between two people then it becomes irrelevant. I believe that this is not true. I do agree though when Lasch says that we are becoming a generation of people who are just being fed information and not making our own decisions about what we hear. This is very true. Now is the time to make a change to that. We must not sit back and let the media feed us information about these two candidates. We must do our own research and find out what these candidates are really about.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campbell.brown.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText