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The Power Of Media In Politics

The Power Of Media In Politics

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The media have become crucial political and economic actors in contemporary democracies&period; Its power lies in its ability to influence power&colon; the power of governments&comma; judges&comma; and legislators&semi; the power of politics&semi; the decision-making power of citizens&period; The media ceased to be &&num;8220&semi;intermediaries&&num;8221&semi; or the common ground of democracy &lpar;if they ever were&rpar; to go on to play the battle of being able to constitute&comma; remove or institute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">This is so because in the 21st century&comma; the media lost their &&num;8220&semi;transparency&&num;8221&semi; of embodying freedom of expression&comma; and many of them became militants of a model of society &lpar;financial capitalism&rpar; and government &lpar;less State&comma; more private company&rpar;&period; Its power resides in the representation and expression of the corporate interests of large business conglomerates to which they belong&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Therefore&comma; rather than informing&comma; they lobby for their own businesses&semi; rather than actively exercising freedom of the press&comma; they defend freedom of business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The media&comma; then&comma; became spokespersons for their masters and ceased to be spokespersons for citizens&period; Their power is that they militate and operate for the story of political hegemony that suits them&semi; they operate on public opinion&comma; shielding some and attacking other ways of doing politics&comma; inventing cracks&comma; polarizations&comma; crises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Their lobbying and political and economic influence are in that they work in the production of visibilities&comma; perceptions&comma; representations&comma; and public emotions&period; Thus&comma; its incidence directly affects symbolic environments&comma; social climates&comma; control&comma; and surveillance of the private life of citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The power of the media to promote the business of their owners is so powerful that many times no matter the economic success of the media themselves&comma; it is in their political gain&period; For the concentrated media groups&comma; the media business has stopped importing&comma; and they have turned to strategic lobbying actions to get decisions in their favor from governments&comma; legislators&comma; and judges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">That is why today&comma; the journalistic action of the media is to defend what their owners defend&comma; rather than information and opinion democracy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">And there are many ways to do it&colon; by overlapping the issues that positively impact your interests as a company&comma; attacking those who contradict those interests&comma; or simply saying nothing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A journalist from the El Tiempo conglomerate in Colombia told us that he censors himself in relation to the owner&comma; Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo &lpar;the richest person in Colombia according to <em>Forbes<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; because &&num;8220&semi;the lunch box is not kicked&comma;&&num;8221&semi; or in other words&comma; the salary is not at stake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It is not that the media &&num;8220&semi;express&&num;8221&semi; the line of action or the way to approach what touches their interests&comma; but the journalist simply &&num;8220&semi;internalizes inhibitions and manifests them in the way he approaches &lbrack;or not&rsqb; the news&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In this context&comma; the media are privileged actors in the political lobby&period; Not that they do exactly the same job as the lobbyist&semi; not that they speak to the congressman in his ear&period; So today&comma; there is a very profitable business&comma; which is the communication offices or companies for professional lobbying&comma; which are known as &&num;8220&semi;strategic communication&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;crisis communication&&num;8221&semi; offices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Communication for the political lobby designs multiple tactics&colon; the advertising pattern&semi; the publication of &&num;8220&semi;scientific&&num;8221&semi; reports favorable to the image of the business&semi; an invitation to events&comma; lunches&comma; and trips for opinion leaders and journalists&semi; journalism awards&semi; creation of distracting scenarios of the informative agenda&semi; taking advantage of the media obsession of politicians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Question goes around&colon; should the mass media be trusted for its coverage&quest; In our review&comma; it depends on the agendas hold by a publication or news agency within a region&period; In modern times&comma; most media outlets operate with an objective&period; For example&comma; Sarmad Group&comma; the biggest media platform in Kuwait holds a status of prestige for being a bias-free and authentic source of news and updates relating to the Middle Eastern region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For years&comma; Sarmad has held a position where it brings consistent coverage on subjects of politics&comma; news&comma; culture&comma; entertainment&comma; lifestyle&comma; and foreign markets&period; The general public’s stance on Sarmad as a media outlet is evident of its journalistic values of trust and reliability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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