How Media Has Changed the Nature of Politics

How media has changed the nature of politics Introduction Newspapers, television, and the Internet. These media have greatly changed of human history, the lives of people and interpersonal relationships. In the process of change, The media also gradually change and affect the state-to-state relations, international politics and the world situation. First of all, let 's talk about the role and influence of the media on the political. 1. Dissemination of information. The media is an effective tool for political communication, because it has more advantages than directly face-to-face communication. Media disseminate information to the whole society, it can help citizens access the information about the current political situation, become a “known citizens”, Provide information foundation of their political participation. For example, after "9.11", The U.S. government released the fight against terrorism policy at the first time, and convened a meeting with the person in charge of the U.S. mainstream media, with the requirements of the media to not publish any reports that is not conducive to the national security of the United States, and require all media absolute "obey orders”. This is the United States Government use the power of the media,to seek legitimacy evidence for its own foreign policy and behavior(Xingping.Kang, 2001) . 2. Influence public opinion. The media is not only the performance of public opinion channel, but also can through extensive and in-depth reports on specific events, to causing the attention of the public to the event, and to mobilize as many people in the community to express their views on the current topic. For example, public opinion and propaganda made by the United States for the war in Iraq, despite the fact that Iraqi President

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