Sentences with phrase «media in a democracy»

The use of the mass media in a democracy of worth is based on four principles.

This way, [with a public relations plan] they can reach more people, and emphasize the role of media in a democracy.»

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Among the language in the promotion was a line reading: «Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control «exactly what people think»... This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.»

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

The statement dozens of Sinclair anchors read in near - unison ended by calling the media landscape «dangerous to our democracy.»

Kris - Stella Trump, director of the Anxieties of Democracy and Media & Democracy programs, publishes piece about Cambridge Analytica in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.

At last, a much - needed debate is breaking out in Canada about the threat to democracy of the ever - weakening state of the news media.

OCTOBER 18, 2003: Plans for a new B.C. focused news publication announced by David Beers on a Media Democracy Day panel in Vancouver.

When the #StopReflectVerify program launched in March, US ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec said fake news was «undermining democracy in Kenya» and that to stop it required a «strong collaboration between the media and the public.»

In every democracy the media is key to holding our Government institutions accountable, regardless of which Government institution that may be.

«Concentrating power in the news media, restricting pluralism and the range of opinion is essentially taking aim at democracy itself.»

In Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy (Pantheon, 1996), James Fallows writes that «journalism is not mere entertainment.

In a democracy of worth mass media ought to be frankly regarded as agencies of education and should be made an integral part of the work of the institutions of education.

The report of the NCC mission reliably parroted the position of Israel's neighboring enemies while omitting any mention of, inter alia, the anti-Semitic hatred daily spewed by the Arab media, official Arab support for Palestinian suicide bombers, Muslim prohibition of Christian (and, needless to say, Jewish) religious practice, and the conspicuous absence of democracy or freedom of expression in all the countries of the region except Israel.

As the technological era permeates cultures worldwide, the mass media are increasingly employed as a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracy.

The tragedy is that Central America has become an equivalent of Tiannamen Square for the United States, in which the U.S. government and media collaborate to repress democracy in the name of democracy.

In doing so, I have suggested that without a truly open marketplace of ideas, without a mass media environment in which all sides of issues are freely and openly discussed, we can not have a workable democracIn doing so, I have suggested that without a truly open marketplace of ideas, without a mass media environment in which all sides of issues are freely and openly discussed, we can not have a workable democracin which all sides of issues are freely and openly discussed, we can not have a workable democracy.

AFACT and PBTL are classic examples of the types of front groups and campaigns described in the excellent book, «Trust Us We're the Experts,» by John Stauber, founder of the Center for Media and Democracy and PR Watch.

This issue was raised because the Commerce Commission gave weight to the fact that the proposed merger would reduce media plurality, considering that would potentially significantly impact democracy in New Zealand, and therefore New Zealand consumers generally.

So far, we know very little about the media in the numerous new democracies around the world except sporadic outbreaks of anger from NGOs specialised in media freedom.

Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective, Edited by Jan Zielonka

Law was the key «lever» used to make politics and the media in new democracies functional, accountable, and fair.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

Seems to me that in a democracy, a media outlet with an obligation to serve the public interest as a precondition to receiving a license to broadcast from the FCC should have ALL declared candidates participate.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

I don't take it personally in a sense that in a democracy you should be challenged by the media, you should be asked tough questions by the public, your opponent should look for holes in your case, right.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

This contest has been Britain's first social media leadership election — though in the eyes of Labour moderates, it became a flash - mob democracy.

Trump defended his son Donald Trump Jr., contrasting his Russia meeting with Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and accused the news media of «DISTORTING DEMOCRACY» in a series of angry statements issued early yesterday.

The new Columbia report makes a big contribution to understanding the business of digital journalism in the U.S., but in many ways, the American experience is exceptional, and one should be careful in understanding developments elsewhere through this lens — hence the need for further comparative research into how our media are changing today and what the implications are for our democracies.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

Media Mezcla Campaign Engine was the highest - rated progressive - only firm in an independent survey of campaign software users conducted by the Personal Democracy Forum, ahead of a field of better - known competitors.

Without an independent media that is detached from government and party control, it is difficult (and premature) to discuss the possibility of strengthening democracy in China.

As I am writing for a blog, I do not intend to jump into academic descriptions about why it is important to have independent media to build democracy in a country.

This would allow legislators, the public and media to weigh - in on the appropriateness of these allocations before the budget is passed to better engage citizens in this representative democracy.

Open Democracy article on the politics of advertising Open Democracy article — pre the phone - hacking scandal - addressing why we should be concerned about Sky Open Democracy article on securing a more plural, diverse media Guardian article on public opinion and the war in Iraq Guardian article on media bias and the war in Iraq

Who claims to: «To support democracy and promote public dialogue in a rapidly changing media environment, is a member - supported news service that advocates journalism in the public interest.»

We here at Personal Democracy Media are endorsing Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, who are running in next Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary here in New York.

He also cautioned the media to be circumspect in their reportage since they play a critical role in our democracy and poor regulation could present key challenges to the society.

The Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, has admonished the Nigerian government to be vigilant about the upcoming Anambra governorship election in order to ensure that last minute conflict triggered through the use of social media, short messaging services (SMS) are not utilized to disrupt the governorship election.

He is the founder of the Internet Advocacy Center and the Internet Advocacy Roundtable; an adjunct professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and American Universities, where he teaches Media and Politics in the Digital Age, Internet Politics, Digital Political Strategies, and Internet Advocacy Communications; a blogger at the Huffington Post, TechPresident.com, and DrDigiPol.com; and a former fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet.

He also noted that the media should perquisite skills in view of the kind of textured and in - depth reporting that the new democracies entail to ensure consolidation of democracy.

She said the vibrant nature of the Ghanaian media is healthy in the effort to sustain democracy and rule of law in the West African country.

The ad, part of a $ 230,000 TV campaign by New York Friends of Democracy, will air on broadcast and cable television in the Albany media market for the next two weeks.

Saraki made the call in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, to commemorate the 2017 Democracy Day celebration.

The governor in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, called on the international community and the media to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.&rMedia, Lere Olayinka, called on the international community and the media to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.&rmedia to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.»

He charged critical stakeholders such as the members of the National Assembly, civil society organisations and the media not to abdicate their roles of defending and promoting the noble ideals of democracy even in the face of constant threats and intimidation.

He said the immense contributions by the media and CSOs to the work of the Commission, through constructive criticisms, suggestions, observation reports and feedbacks from the field, were helping to deepen democracy, strengthen the electoral process and in policy formulation.