The Influence Of Mainstream Media

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Mainstream media is vital means which keep people informed about event and news over the world.Media plays an important and powerful part in our lives. The Media’ is an incredibly powerful way to send information and messages to specific groups of people, a particular society, or just about everyone.Recently, the media has gained more control over what political information is presented to the public.in America, they try to pay close attention to everything that goes on in the government. Whatever decision they make the people want to know when, where, why, and how. This is because whatever decision that they make will determine what will happen with this country as a whole in the long run. So what is the best way to find out what’s going on …show more content…

The war against Iraq had no strong foundation of reasons as to why President Bush had to start it. Unanswered questions were ignored as the news focused on Saddam 's "evil" ways. As In the “CNNeffect” Peirs Robinson argues that the war on terror actually the death of the Cnn effect as it pushed humanitarian concerns down(pg.235).The media can also influence politics by deciding what news the public needs to hear. Often, there are more potential news stories available to the media than time or space to devote to them, so the media chooses the stories that are the most important and the most sensational for the public to hear. This have been quite a spectacle because of the influence of mass media and the way that American politics are run. Ideally, mass media is supposed to make it easier for people to participate in political decisions, understand how the government works, and hold government officials accountable. But in this day and age, the media is often used to manipulate and obscure the true form of political issues. mainstream media has been effectively made Usenet of to spread the government 's convictionsThe role of the media in the agenda‐setting process is to generate salience for some issues, or particular aspects of issues, thereby drawing public attention to a limited set of current problems.

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