How Amazon Is Changing the Presidential Industry

November 15, 2021

 

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The internet has changed the way American politics works. Now that we have the internet, we are able to do more of what was once the exclusive domain of the incumbent leaders of the political scene. Our political system is more transparent, and our political leaders are more accessible to us. However, all of this should not take away from the fact that the political system remains complex. There are too many factors involved in winning and losing elections to be able to truly make a decision on any single issue.

Donald Trump did nothing to lessen this complexity.


The internet has made it easier to get information from the ground up, but it is still not as easy to get data on the ground that is relevant to your area of the country. This is probably why our recent Presidential election was a mess. The media in the US has been a bit of a joke, and the way that the internet has made it easier to get information to the public is somewhat counterintuitive.


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I think the biggest part of the problem in the US is that the media in general has become so focused on the “facts” that it is difficult to get information that is relevant to your area of the country. This is probably why our current Presidential election was a mess.


The reason the media in the US has become so focused on the facts is that the internet has made it easier to get information to the public.


Just like the way that the internet has made it easier to get information about presidential candidates to the public, the same happens with news sites. It’s easy to get information about a story because it will be posted on a website that is accessible to the public. In the case of elections, information is spread by word of mouth.


In the case of presidential elections, that means it's easy for people to talk about the candidates to others.


It's also easy for people to talk about the candidates to the public because it's easy to broadcast information about them on the internet. That's why news sites have become so important.


It wasn't too long ago that the only way to get information out for the public was to go to the local news sites.


The problem that happened was that most of the time the news sites would never publish an election story or even mention the candidates. That's because the media outlets are afraid to publish content that might be embarrassing to the candidate. In other words, the media outlets don't want to get in the middle of a scandal, controversy, or embarrassing event.


That's why Amazon, a company with a stated goal of making a better life out of news and content, decided they wanted to help.


Amazon has just announced that it's partnering with the Washington Post to publish news stories about the campaigns. Of course, these stories will be covered by the Washington Post and therefore appear on the front page of the Washington Post website. For the first time, the Washington Post and Amazon will be covering the same stories.


This is not a good move for Amazon.


It will give the Washington Post a huge media platform, which they cannot afford. The Washington Post is currently the most popular paper in the US, and if the stories they're covering are good, then the Post may very well become the most popular newspaper in America. In other words, the Washington Post has a large platform to play with.

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