WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

Social Media on Election night was abuzz with everyone who’s anyone’s opinionated stance on what should happen, what is happening, and who should be the next President of the United States.  Some of the commentary a little more entertaining than others, with entertainers such as Kathy Griffin cracking jokes on her twitter feed, and Presidential mocker Donald Trump spewing words of disdain for the Democrats; it makes for an entertaining, as well as informative means of knowing what is going on in the election.
All the news outlets have twitter feeds now; some of them, numerous accounts: CNN News, CNN Election Coverage, and you could replace CNN with Fox or NBC or ABC, or NYtimes, or NYPost – any news outlet imaginable at this point; you can tweet with them.

They each claim to be unbiased; we all know this is really not true, but the NY Times does do a semi-good job at appearing fair, with enough media content for both sides of the parties.

I have to wonder what the election looked like pre-twitter/facebook/television…

As he acknowledged to the country that he had won his second term as President of the United States.  With a tear in his eye, and amounts of happiness and appearing gratitude that overflowed, he took his place as a two-termer.  It surely was late enough into the evening, after his opponent Mitt Romney all but refused to concede – his hopes of winning getting smaller by the second as each state came in with who their votes were going to… almost every one adding to Obama’s already significantly higher number of electoral votes.

It was semi-brilliant watching FOX News’s anchors look pained as they announced Obama as the winner; the clearly biased news source would have loved to have announced Romney as our new president, but were denied the pleasure of their Republican candidate winning.  They held on until late in the evening as well, while other news outlets had announced much earlier that Obama was clearly getting the Presidential nod.

The fun really to be had on election night though was on social media – everyone with their “I am going to de-friend you’s” being threatened to their Facebook counterparts publicly endorsing their particular candidate.  I, personally, (while happy with the current president), would love to see Hillary Clinton in office; she would rock it.  http://hillaryclinton.com/