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Content: However, this personal ideology must be in line with their electoral
base if he/she has any chance for reelection. As such, public opinion polling has become crucial to the success or
demise of political elections. Martin
Shaw writes in his book Civil Society and Media in Global Crisesthat: “Political polling in the broadest sense is
undertaken largely by specialist 
firms commissioned by newspapers and
television, political parties and other interest groups. The polls which influence public perceptions
and debate are those which appear in mass media. Whereas some policy as well as voting questions are asked
regularly within polling series, global crises are episodic events impinging
irregularly on political debate, and so taking a poll is a more significant
intervention”(Shaw 127). The wording of Shaw’s last
sentence, “a more significant intervention,”is something that worries the critics of
free press and an unconstrained media industry. It is understandable to have an immediate source of information
that provides a greater sense of awareness and knowledge to the issues America
confronts. But when this information is
directly effecting the action of the government and exerting control through
coercion, incorrect or misleading information, and often times biased and
selective news reporting, it may seem like a valid idea to place restrictions. Positive Aspects of the Role
of Media on the International Scene
In The News Media, Civil War, and
Humanitarian Action, authors Larry Minear, Colin Scott, and Thomas Weiss
refer to the influence of media as “The Crisis Triangle,”involving
governments, news media, and humanitarian organizations (Minear 2).