The Role of News Media in a Democracy
                     ROLE OF NEWS 
MEDIA IN 
SOCIETY
Purpose of 
Media
The purpose of a media is to give 
information about current news, gossips, 
Fashion, and the latest gadgets in the 
marketplace of the people. The role of a 
media has to be one way trading and 
marketing of products, and prejudices. It 
gives geographical knowledge about how 
people divided. 
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What Media 
Provide?
•  information
• education
• entertainment
• advertising
• correlation of parts of society
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Influence of a 
media on today’s 
society
Society is influenced by media in so many 
ways. It is the media for the masses that 
helps them to get information about a lot 
of things and also form opinions and 
make a judgment regarding various 
issues. 
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Impact of fake 
news through 
media
In media world it had a positive and 
negative sides because as it had an 
influence over generations from ages, 
some fake news make a special impact 
over the society to make crimes and 
make people react fast to the issue 
without thinking once, in this social media 
like facebook, twitter, WhatsApp plays a 
major role recently in India one fake news 
made village people kill one innocent 
person and injured friends of that person. 
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Media in our 
hands
In today’s world, 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.
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Fourth pillar of 
democracy
Media is regarded as the fourth pillar of 
democracy. It questions the decisions of 
government, exposes corruption and 
injustice and thereby influences public 
opinion. It also informs common people 
about their rights. So, media strengthens 
democracy.
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Analyze the 
political agenda
One of the prime roles of the media is to 
analyze the political agenda. Some other 
functions may be influencing public 
opinion, offering a relation between the 
people and its government, impacting 
socialization, and even acting as a 
watchdog.
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Affects the 
opinions of 
people
The media impacts society largely. It also 
affects the opinions of people living in a 
society largely. 
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Educate 
The most prime and obvious role of the 
media is to circulate news that can help 
people educate themselves on what is 
happening around the world.
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