To keep our government fair with checks and balances we are lucky to have the fourth estate of mass media. The goal of the media should be to keep citizens informed of important events and changes taking place in their society, culture, and governments.
As loyal citizens we expect for the media to keep us informed truthfully by the media about our government and corporate doings and to keep a fair unbiased opinion about all pressing issues but to simply stress raw facts, data, and to present issues without fluffery. With this level of media coverage figures and institutions can be held accountable for their actions and have issues exposed and good work praised.
Overall this system seems it should work, but does the media today have the freedom of press and speech we so often hear of? Is our media honest, and not trying to push a political or corporate objective of their own? Or has the media’s best intentions turned into a strive for profits, ratings, and advertising that has lent them to be a corporations tool to control the ever trusting and ignorant public opinion?
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