تأثير وسائل الأعلام في الديمقراطية الأمريكية
Date
2005-01-13
Authors
إياد محسن سليمان الدجاني
Ayad Muhsen Sulieman Dajani
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AL-Quds University
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Abstract
The media industry is one of the largest private sector employers in the
United States, and the news media make up the largest segment of that
industry. Generating information, not just delivering it, is a growth
business in the United States. The American news business used to be a
largely domestic enterprise, but no longer. The American news industry
is a developed participant in the American culture, as well as in the
democratic political system and its free market economy.
The impact of the media has been most spectacular in the democratic
political systems. The media could help expand the reach of democratic
ideals thus the issue is to make the right decisions to head in that
direction. The media is a useful tool that will lead nations to make the
right decision in that direction.
This research focuses on the impact of the media on the American
democracy and portrays the American media experience in promoting
democracy. It analyzes the power of the media to break down
hierarchical power structures, to enhance freedom of the individual, to
increase voter participation, to produce informed decision makers who
are more responsive to the desires of the citizenry.
This research studies the constitutional protection of American Media as
a free press guaranteed in the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no
law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….” The Fourteenth
Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1868, has been interpreted to
apply that protection of freedom of expression to every governmental
body, from Congress to local government boards; from that we can now
know that the media went as a free media under the protection of the
First Amendment of the American Constitution.
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الدراسات الاقليمية , Regional Studies