Mondo Times Media Poll Archive

This poll ran from June 2 to 10, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"American election coverage is just gossip about celebrities." True 283/74% False 101/26%

Votes: 384

Allan Uthman, from his opinion piece "Battle of the Network Stars" in the May/June 2007 issue of the Buffalo Beast.

Referring to four recent stories from the "politics" feed of the Associated Press, Uthman writes: "There's nothing there about what's happening in the outside world, nor any coverage of actual governmental activities. It's just gossip about celebrities. The fact that those celebrities happen to be members of our government is incidental. These stories aren't about policy, or politics, really. They're about the candidates' chances to be the last one standing."

He continues, "This is not a new phenomenon of course, but it does seem to get a worse every time, and in vast increments. Election coverage is not only deplorably shallow; its non-stop, news-cycle-dominating prominence is obscuring larger reality. It's stealth entertainment news, wearing the guise of legitimate national affairs journalism. There's nothing significantly different in the tone of coverage of the Obama/Clinton rivalry from that of Paris and Nicole. Romney's Mormonism is handled no differently than Tom Cruise's Scientology."

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