Media democracy

to further the ideologies of a single individual who runs said country. Dictators are known to use drastic measures to obtain and stay in power including the use of force, indoctrination, control of external and internal media, propaganda and the manipulation of their democracies. These tactics are often enforced with the fear of exile, imprisonment…

world’s most powerful democracy, has consistently suffered from inordinately low approval ratings from the American public. There are multitudinous hypotheses from political scientists that offer postulates as to why this particular branch of government has been burdened by the scourge of popular disapproval. One ostensible consideration in the analysis of this phenomenon is the inherent nature of democracy itself. One must ask if the constitutional framework of American democracy itself is…

than ever, almost every day we hear about a shocking act of violence, whether it’s a terrorist bombing, a senseless school shooting, or a gruesome murder. However, much of our impression of this violent world we live in today comes from misleading media sources that distorts our views of reality. In this advanced technological era, it is nearly impossible to turn on the TV, access our phones, and browse the internet without hearing the 24-hour news cycle, amber alerts, and human rights…

otherwise its citizens would be somewhat out of control. I also knew that the media can be bias when showing certain areas of the government and the people within it. How does control like that in 1984 manifest within modern societies? Government control has been going on within our world for years. They control what we see what we hear and they can even control us. http://www.globalresearch.ca/truth-propaganda-and-media-manipulation/23868 lists a number of different ways the government…

Democracy is an American and European idea that does not fit other cultures or civilizations and thus, is always imposed on other societies. Non-western countries, especially the Islamic regimes that have a different religious and cultural perspective and tolerance altogether discard the western outlook. Democracy can only ascend “organically” in a country and requires an extensive period of social, economic…

Freedom and Security “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” This statement by Benjamin Franklin (1818), one of the founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, shows the sacred character of freedom which should not be altered for any reason. On the other hand, Rand Beers, the current Deputy Homeland Security Advisor of President Obama, thinks that the precondition to freedom is…

Freedom of the press is a right that is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is essential to an effective democracy, in order to cast an educated vote people must be informed. Thomas Jefferson once said “Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” How is freedom of the press defined? Most commonly freedom of the press is defined as the right to circulate opinions without government regulation. In the world today every person has the freedom to be a…

Media has become an important catalyzer for the spread of this kind of situations. Citizens are willing to give away their right to free expression and speech in order to restrain those same rights from other citizens and allow regulations and government interventions in social affairs. Media implants the seed of fear in this citizens and makes them believe freedom is irrelevant if there is someone…

Plato more explicitly says that no person can challenge another’s position or role in the Kallipolis because if someone is suited to the role of ruling or shows leadership, no individual can interfere in their duty to do so (Popper, 1962) and if for any reason these roles are conflated or practised by the wrong individual than this will have dangerous consequences for society (Kallipolis). Not only is this approach extremely problematic because it completely diminishes he idea of any meritocracy…

The “Third Wave” of democracy began in the 1970s when Spain and Portugal suddenly switched from autocracies to a democracies. In the following years, several countries around the world adopted democratic governments. During the “Third Wave”, there were four main reasons for a country to change to a democracy , and scholars learned a lot about the transition from autocracy to democracy. One of the main a reasons a country would switch to a democratic form of government is because they were…