CMN 3133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: See It Now, Plaintext, Mike Duffy
12 Sep 2016
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The media should be used as important political actors, not only do they transmit the message of the political organization to the public but they transform the message through different things of news making. What the politicians are saying is not necessary. In addition to the media, always makes statements about politics in their own right in the form of editorials etc. Media are important to analyze political activity but are also part of it, available as a resource as political actors and advisors. The source becomes more important as demand for news increases, thus develops mucho inter-dependence between journalists and politicians in which can benefit the other. 5 functions of the media in democratic societies. They must inform citizens of what is happening around them, but may be surveyed. They must educate as through the meaning and significance as to the fact.
