Government and Current Events

Government and Current Events

Introduction

Media, in today's rapidly changing environment can be seen as a powerful tool to form ideas and change existing beliefs. Researchers believe that media has achieved a significant success in making their roots strong among public much better than politicians (Graber, 2009). In fact, media's main job is to provide information to its audiences and create awareness of things among them. It is important to know that this information is further used by people to take decisions and sometimes to take actions. There is no doubt about the fact that media can be seen as a great source of information, it is essential to know that media has been found to have delivering biased information through news and other current affair programs. I fact, news media uses different techniques to change the existing mind set of people about any particular issue whether it be general election, American's landing on moon, or wars of Afghanistan or Iraq (Dimaggio & Fasse, 2009). The role of framing and spinning, in this regard, is very critical as media use these two techniques at a frequent pace in order to modify public opinion in favor or against about a particular person or story.

It is also a fact that news are produced through the information collected from field by the reporter. Reporters are responsible to not only collect information but they also prepare reports. Editors come later, who are mainly responsible to select and edit these reports prepared by reports. It is obvious that reporters and editors are two vital elements in the production of news before they are delivered to public as information (Graber, 2009). Researchers emphasize that media, whether print or electronic, has some social responsibilities as well as obligation to deliver truthful and correct information to its audience. Politicians are also part of public as they enjoy a fame due to their role in public and national service. However, it has been seen that there is a significant differences between the relationship of politicians and media due to the quality and credibility of news (Graber, 2009). This paper aims to discuss the issue of politicians/government and media relationship and examines the impact of news on different social and political factors through two examples.

Discussion

It would not be wrong to say that today's media can also be seen as a teacher due to its status of information source. The political domain is also a full-fledged domain that has a very different type of work far beyond than providing information. In fact politicians are responsible to solve issues of general public and perform in various government roles at national or international level (Graber, 2009). This suggests that any biased information on media about politicians not only damage their public image but also impact on diplomacy, economy, social and political issues and overall environment. In addition, this debate requires deeper understanding of the techniques of media to form or modify public opinions. Framing and spinning are two major techniques that can be ...