school debate

[evil^milk]

hey guys, i know i should be doing this on my own, but the teacher instructed us to look for as many sources as we could to get info.

i can't help feeling a little irresponsible by posting this here, but i really need your points of view.

ok, so the subject is literature and what we're doing is Debate. if you're not familiar with this activity, here's what it is, basically: it consists of splitting the classroom into teams and each of us has a Yes/No point of view on the given subject; which in this case is: Is mass media important for electoral/political triump? (one team may get "yes", meaning they support the subject, and the other may get "no" which means they don't support it).

now, the teacher does this annoying thing that we have to look for both arguments that do and do not support the subject.

with the given fact that the teacher is annoying, i ask myself, "where the hell is the debate here? of course mass media is important for electoral/political triumph... how else would people hear about anything?"

so what i mostly need is arguments against the subject, if any...

i'll appreciate any help

 

[jondy]

Hmm.. what is this 'debate' you speak of?

I'll look into it

 

[xcellerate]

i'm a master-debater, and yes it most definitly is.

The 1960 election for example with JFK and nixon, nixon lost because he looked truely terriable on TV. He was sick, had earlier bruised his knee (so it's been said), and refused make up. While kennedy looked dashing as ever.

 

[evil^milk]

that's what puzzles me, i really don't know any argument that can be used against the subject...

 

[spookymooky]

Uhh... George Washington was elected unanimously without the use of the mass media?



Just keep saying that over and over, and ignore their response. Also shake your fist and shout it.

 

[Raeven0]

It's not a very good debate topic.

Pray that you don't have to defend the NO argument.

 

[evil^milk]

It's not a very good debate topic.

Pray that you don't have to defend the NO argument.

i know... lol

 

[MrMan]

My teachers always told me not to mass-debate, so i can't help sorry

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

A counter point is today's rise of internet technology, particularly blogs and other activist websites. To say that places like Little Green Footballs (broke the Dan Rather fake memos story) or moveon.org (got lots of money to democratic campaigns) and other places had no effect would be a lie. The blogs today are reaching such a high importance in the political playing field they are taking away from the major media's power.