Media Role in American Politics

Opposing this generally positive role of the media in American politics is the fact that the mass media in this country generally deny the same opportunity to candidates other than the principal candidates in an election or the principal parties in stating their positions on important issues. Thus, on one level, the functioning of the mass media in the United States works to assure either that minority viewpoints seldom reach wide audiences in political debates or that such viewpoints are denigrated by either media commentators, the principal candidates, or the principal political parties during the course of media coverage of elections and public issue debates.

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olved in the election. These voters, however, did believe that he would be the most effective of the two principal candidates in actually administering the executive responsibilities of government, especially with respect to economic stewardship. Disarmament Kenneth Waltz (159) wrote that when no system of enforcement exists within a community of sovereign states conflict, to include war, is likely to occur. Waltz was describing a condition of anarchy among states wherein there is no mechanism to assure harmonious relations. Within an international political environment that is characterized by state anarchy, individual and allied states must devise some mechanism of their own to deter other states from actions that may lead to war. Typically, the mechanism devised is some sort of threat system designed to deter other states from committing hostile acts that could lead to conflict (Baldwin 15). Deterrence is an action or strategy expressed as a threat by one party in an attempt to prevent some other party from acting in a way that is harmful to the first party. The objective of a state that implements a deterrent strategy may be to preclude an attack against itself or against another state or group of states. When the obj
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