Misbah Shoaib What is the role of media in a democracy? Media plays a crucial role in shaping a healthy democracy. It is the backbone of a democracy. Media makes us aware of various social‚ political and economical activities happening around the world. It is like a mirror‚ which shows us or strives to show us the bare truth and harsh realities of life. But that is only the case if money isn’t involved. Media plays a huge role in forming and giving characters and specific traits to a country’s
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even minute. Both methods of keeping in touch with information are part of the media. The question is whether the media does undermine the democracy. Are other persons deciding on what you got to see and hear or are you able to make your own choices? Therefore‚ the main subject will be the democracy standard of the media and when media is undermining the democracy and when not. 2. The beginning of the media It all started in 1877‚ with the invention of the Cylinder Phonograph by Thomas Edison (Library
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“Democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly” . This definition does not explicitly determine who “the people” are. Realistically‚ in a democratic form of government the majority among the people has the power to make decisions binding upon the whole . The question that naturally arises when analysing the ideas expressed by Rousseau‚ Mill and Tocqueville is the following: to what extent the rule of the majority in a democracy
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Larry Diamond’s presentation explores the question of why there are no Arab democracies in the Middle East and North Africa. He shows us the relatively stagnant levels of democratic freedoms that have been the norm in the region for the past several decades. Diamond gives us a multitude of potential explanations for the absence of a sustainable democracy. His first explanation implicates that there must be something within the Islam or Arab culture or religion‚ that prevents the formation of a
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intro Democracy is viewed to be an ideal form of political system and government. Several countries these days have adopted this. Democracy signifies supreme power that lies in the body of the citizens electing leaders that will represent them. This can also be defined as political system and orientation including individuals standing by the government or by the individuals they have elected to represent them. Democracy entails numerous advantages but this is also tied to some disadvantages. Advantages
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and Ecclesia named Archons. Their duties were to be governors of the council and assembly. “The council of Areopagus” was the Anthenian council. This council served as an important legal institution under the the Athenian democracy. This council existed long before democracy and its power and composition changed many times over the centuries. The Athens conducted an assembly it was the regular gathering of male Athenian citizens to listen to‚ discuss‚ and vote on decrees such as‚ finical and religious
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Representative democracy is a form of government where elected officials are voted on the behalf of the people to represent them in government processes; it is a corrupt system due to the lack of accomplishment for the common good. This is demonstrated throughout numerous ways such as flaws in education‚ illusions of freedom‚ the voting influencing on the democratic environment‚ and ultimately the absence of the greater good. School is the main resource that teaches people what they need to know
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agree that democracy is the best form of government. As a result‚ their outlook upon the first great democratic system in Western civilization is largely affected by their own predilection. Others‚ however‚ can see major flaws in Athenian democracy. These opposing stances are no recent development. The positives and negatives of this form of government have been argued and deliberated ever since it first transpired‚ nearly 25 centuries ago. Indeed‚ most of the criticism made of democracy today was
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"Media is the fourth pillar of Democracy" “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent‚ and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses” - Malcolm X Today‚ media is considered the fourth pillar of the state all over the world; first and foremost British Member of Parliament Lord Macaulay had given this status to the media. In any republican government system‚ there must be three administrative
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In ‘Democracy in America’‚ Alexis De Tocqueville analyses democracy‚ seen as egalitarian social conditions. While he acknowledges its merits in guaranteeing the economic and political stability of nations‚ he also warns that democratic systems have the potential to bring about various social handicaps‚ namely ‘individualism’ and ‘democratic nepotism’ - unless intermediate institutions are introduced. Marx‚ on the hand‚ dismisses the idea that politics are at the heart of modern society’s issues
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