Power of the Media over Democracy

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This is an opinion paper which argues that the impact of the American media has politicized a pluralist democracy among the majority by creating a marginalized society, leaving the corporations, including the media, and the American politicians at the top of the pinnacle concerning political decisions and elite power.

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"This became evidently clear when Richard Barlin, the president and chief executive officer of the Haarst Corporation in New York, asked President Richard Nixon to grant him immunity from the antimonopoly law that had in previous years sent other corporate executives to jail. The Haarst Corporation "owned nine newspapers, ten broadcasting stations, twenty-six magazines, and a book publishing house" (Adalstain). Nixon knew that if ha did not exempt Barlin from the law, his actions would be remembered, coma the next election. This illustrates that the government needs the media more than the media needs the government due to the fact the media has the ability to shape and form political discourse. It is also capable of disrupting the established paradigm, therefore threatening their dominant status."

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