http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/19/politics/gop-delegate-race/index.html
I have once again found an article where Dr. Bennett would be pleased that the media is in some small way attempting to reduce the knowledge gap. This article lays out the importance of the nomination and the importance of delegates. In some way the media although it is focusing on the horse race of the primary elections is educating the mass public in the workings of the election process. Although traces of sensationalism and some of Dr. Bennett's informational biases can be found such as the medias failure to show the whole picture. I know I have been guilty of attacking the media but this article does show at least an attempt by the best gosh darn news team ever to reduce the knowledge gap. In this article the media is fufilling one of the roles media scholars state that the media should have. the media is informing the public and perhaps acting as the 4th branch of government that Dr. Graber has called it on sveral occasians. The media the informant the bridge between the massive government and the countless masses something that seems to be poetic and unreachable.
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