The Role Of The Media In The Political Process

In the U.S government, it is necessary to make sure no one person or group of people has more power than anyone else to keep things in order. Check and balances serves as a restriction that the U.S federal government has to follow in order to make sure all 3 branches of government, Legislative, Judicial, and, Executive, have an equal amount of power. Because of this, members of any branch must be made up of people who are ethical as they are the ones who represent their respective branch. The Legislative Branch consist of the Senate and the House of Representative. Their primary focus is to create laws which are to be written, discussed, and then finally vote on. The Legislative Branch has the ability to check the power of the Judicial Branch

This is where the media proves to be vital. The main role of the media in the political process is to provide accurate information from a neutral standpoint by analyzing the governement to the best of their ability which then let the people decide on what they should do. However, this can also be counterproductive to the political process as an individual may be exposed to only a few media which may influence to work against or for a certain political party. As such, the media may not always be able to present things in a neutral position as they may have hidden agenda. An example of this would be a confidential information leak When something like this happens, the media will generally be all over it, giving out information that the government does not what the public to see. Most of the time, this would anger people and may even change their opinion. In short, the media keeps the government in check forcing anyone that is politically involved to be more cautious as anything they say or do in their past may be used against them later on in their