Ok, so my final thesis took awhile to perfect. I have finally gotten it down to ...
"By turning political debates and coverage of elections into a makeshift reality television show, today's media has turned politics into just another form of enterainment."
Hopefully it will be a good paper. I need to discussing the effect television has on elections by showing how it has turn politicians into celebrities. Also I will discuss how the line between the entertainment industry and government has been blurred because of celebrities turning into politicians and celebrities becoming more envolved in the political process. My main source will be a book by Liesbet van Zoonen call "Entertaining the Citizen". It mainly focuses on the transformation of politics into another branch of the entertainment industry and how politics need to be entertaining in order for the people to participate. I am using mainly books on similar topics and a journel article on the effect that celebrity endorments have on a candidates campaign. I have learned so far in my research that more celebrity endorsments end up hurting the politicain than helpinig because people think that the politicians beleifs are the same as the celebrity that is endorsing them. I hope this paper turns out alright and I don't mess it up too badly! haha
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