If Our Present Media Had Covered the 1860 Election!
Watching our broken media cover the election and reduce every single issue to the most trivial nonsense, I began to wonder: "what would have happened if we had our present media covering historic elections of the past?" Would we even have elected men like Abraham Lincoln? Or would they have made the election all about his beard?
Thus, this short diary imagining what would have happened if they had covered the 1860 election just like they do today. Enjoy:
Bob-Blowhard, reporter: "Abraham Lincoln gave a speech today calling for national unity to ‘solve our nation’s problems’ before a wildly cheering crowd of 50,000 in his home state of Illinois. Let’s listen to a brief portion.
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