Through out the past fifty years reporters have tried to find different things about candidates to make them look bad or make other candidates look good. In the mid nineteen hundreds, negative images of candidates were being shown to people but not on a large enough scale to make an impact. However, this has been more affective in the past ten years or so. With the increase in technology and its access, these negative images are seen by more people and cause them to believe things that are not necessarily true. Even recently with the election of President Obama, people have been put things in articles that are not true or things that have nothing to do with his role as president. In the Charlotte Observer there was an article about how President Obama's half brother married someone who was 30 years younger than him and is also his third wife. But this has nothing to do with President Obama being president or how he is doing his job but people that do not like him for what ever reason use this as another reason not to like him. Even though some things said on the media are positive when talking about politics, the information that seems to be remembered and circulates around is the negative information people hear in the news.