Media as an Interest Group

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"The Founding Fathers were concerned about the effect of special interest groups, which they referred to as factions. James Madison and the other Framers feared the influence of factions on the body politic, understandable given that they defined a faction as promoting something adverse to the rights of others

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"The Founding Fathers were concerned about the effect of special interest groups, which they referred to as factions. James Madison and the other Framers feared the influence of factions on the body politic, understandable given that they defined a faction as promoting something adverse to the rights of others. Madison chose to encourage and nurture the development of interest groups as a way for Americans to express themselves: "Madison's vision was of a large, diverse nation with so many differences of opinion that domination by any one group would be unlikely" (Schultz, Stowitts, Stewart, & Sunshine, 1998, 248). However, Madison could not have foreseen the development of the mass media that exists today or the ways in which special interest groups are able to use the media for their purposes. The mass media itself shapes public opinion, though many in the media..."

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