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One facet of democracy is such that it is the people who determine the leader of a particular state. The United States of America can be regarded as the country that gave rise to this concept as the nation state was born from a war that fought for it. A national electorate chooses the president of the United States. Most Americans learn about the choices they face in national elections not from personal contact with politicians, from public forums, or even from conversations with others, but from the mass media. President Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the public "may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them"1 from the press. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press was established on the basis of this faith.2 The established press fulfilled this purpose and that of fostering citizen...

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