Essay On Political Media

The dynamic of how politics are presented has been changing over the years. In A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship, Jeffery P. Jones explains that news is presented by three central but flawed assumptions and he later proposes four ways that news media could use as an advantage to the older dated approaches. The three assumptions include: the news is the primary and ‘proper’ source of political communication, supplying citizens with information is the most important, and finally, political engagement must necessarily be associated with physical activity. (Jones, 2006)

When Jones says media is a primary and proper source of news media he means political media is only accepted when it is presented seriously, by doing that

This approach was used throughout Sarah Palin’s political run. Thus, making political satire change the meaning of political journalism. Ian Reilly presents this argument in Satirical Fake News and/as American Political Discourse, saying: “Over the past decade, satirical ‘fake’ news has emerged as ubiquitous of popular political discourse that questions, above all else the logical and integrity of contemporary journalistic practices (Reilly, 2012.)” Consequently, reinforcing our argument that political satire not only shouldn’t be ignored. It also presents the dynamic change of how political journalism is

This brings me to Jones’s proposed approach that says, “mediums affect meaning” this is true for the millennial generations interest in social power and social injustices. Political music, like political satire helps mold millennial ideologies because to Jones’s point mediums do in fact affect meaning. In the article What Riot? Punk Rock Politics, Fascism, and Rock against Racism, by Alessandro G. Moliterno, he says the following about how music influences political though especially when discussing social issues: “Rock music operates as a mass medium, which is experienced by hundreds of thousands of people almost simultaneously, then it stands to reason that punk and its message had the potential to reach, and therefore influence, a very broad audience (Moliterno, 2012.)” Bands like Desaparecidos, System of a Down and briefly, At the Drive-In are a few examples of bands that focus a lot of the music on social justice. Reinforced by an article written by New York Daily news that says “ political music is meant to appeal not only to the oppressed, but to those compassionate to the cause as well (Gavish, 2009.)” As Gavish discusses the event of the cause is usually more often than not created by the meaning that is transmitted to the citizens, as Jones would call the population, through a musical medium that affects audience’s political beliefs. For example: In the song