Whether it is through the eyes of the camera or words of a magazine the media has a strong impact on our day to day lives, most importantly, our Government. Juan Williams identified the impact the media on our government when he highlighted that the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights movement used the media to force the government to look at their issues. "Their hope was, in the beginning, a fragile one. Wherever they went it was clear to them by then, the media would go as well, and where the media went, the federal government reluctantly would have to follow" (p.xx). Henceforth, the media is used as a vehicle for federal change.
If one traces modern journalism to the nineteenth century they will see that the media has always been used for the use of Federal change. Upton Sinclair's celebrated exposé of the meat packing industry in Chicago The Jungle etched stark pictures in the public mind that helped contribute to stronger government regulation (Spitzer, 1993, p.3). The......

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Title: Media And Policy
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