Fabricating and Creating News

Essay # 58929

Communication > Journalism
Communication > Mass Media
Political Science

A look at how governments practice a form of indirect censorship through the creation of news items that distract attention.

1,783 words () | 7 sources | MLA | 2005

Paper Summary:

This paper attempts to explain the role of the news media and the responsibility that it has towards the people and the country rather than the government. It examines how the press is obliged to inform the public of the government's activities and to act as the Fourth Estate. It explores the importance of the press carrying out these responsibilities. It focuses on the White House and Congress as news makers.

From the Paper:

"People living in underdeveloped countries that do not have democratic systems of government assume that the press in the Western and democratic parts of the world is free. They believe that journalists report on political and economic news objectively, and inform the public of all matters of importance. Citizens of the Third World cannot imagine that the press in the West would misinform the public, as often happens with them, or deliberately ignore the reporting of important news. However this does occur and has in the United States under President Nixon, President Clinton and President George W. Bush, just as three examples."