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The power of the mass media has been grossly overstated.
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... The power of the mass media has been grossly overstated. Do you agree? The mass media has been an integral part of society ever since its inception as a result of the creation of 'movable type' media in the 1400s which spanned the printing process and ultimately dissemination of information. It went through changes with the invention of radio and television, and yet the mass media was still influential. In today's information technology age and the down of "New Media", technological changes make the mass media even more powerful. As an information network, the mass media is proving to be even more influential than before; as a political watchdog, its influence is still as prevalent as before. Therefore, the power of the mass media is no inflated. If one of the roles of mass media is to be an information superhighway accessible to the majority of the people, how can it possibly














