Monday, September 8, 2008

corporations political influence on youth right or wrong?

Over the past couple weeks, along with prior elections, I have been noticing MTV's biased opinions towards the democratic party. They claim that they have no affiliation with either party and are not biased in any way. They push the power of voting in almost all of their programs and commercials yet they bias it towards the democratic party. Most of the time they just hint towards voting democrat but last night they came right out and said vote for obama and mentioned nothing of the republican party. I understand that many corporations take a stand politically and contribute to one party or the other but do you feel like it is right for a corporation that has such a huge impact on todays youth to bias it in one direction rather than the other? I feel like they unfairly influence the young voters who look up to the famous people that are reguarly on the tv station. I think that they should push the right to vote but dont try to pursuade uninformed voters to vote democrat just because "diddy" says so or because thats what the cool or famous people are doing. They should promote them to look at the issues at hand rather than the "everybody's doing it," peer pressure influence they are promoting.

-Brian D