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What is the role of the information and news media in
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say the credible are credible?  What is the role of the information and news media in the shaping of political opinions? The news media can carry a huge influence when talking about how the public preserves politics. There is a different level of responsibility that the news media holds when putting out political information; when they are the only real source we as the people have to depend on to receive that type of info it must be taken serious. I feel the media has a set agenda when addressing political issues, its cut and dry either their trying to get the audience to embrace their point of
view or discredit someone else’s. But when it’s all said and done, the news networks are ran by the same politicians we see on the news, and it’s a known fact that if an individual see’s and hears something enough they start to believe it, and that is what the news does, they continue to press these images in to societies head until we have no choice but to believe it. For example, Donald Trump we hear so much negative about him though news media that people immediately count him out for president and the only way we have gotten that point of view is by the information received though news media.  How have electronic media and their convergence transformed journalism and news consumption?