Mass Media

Historically the role of the mass media was to be a watchdog over the government. The founding fathers believed that the media should be able to dig up facts and warn the public of any wrong doing by any public official. Furthermore, if the media believed that the politician was engaged in any kind of unscrupulous activities the public should be aware of that. Also, the founding fathers believed that the role of media is …

…is no way of checking if the information is a valid source. Secondly, the media outlets are owned by multi-million dollars corporation who can control what they consider is newsworthy. Their only ambition is to make a profit. Americans today are more interested in gossip than hard news. The belief is to keep people informed on non-trivial things not hared-core news. Today, there are to many models playing journalist and not enough journalists playing themselves.