In today's society television news is an entertainment medium which was intended to provide information to the public on current issues, but that is not its prime function any more. It's also meant to help viewers see issues from different perspectives. Being objective on a certain issue cannot always exist so there is a bias of some sort in every news station. Each news station has a specific point of view and they try to persuade the viewers to agree with them. To do this they use specific evidence to support the idea, and specific language to help you to believe that idea.

The relationship between the media and politics has been going on for a long time. According to Paul Starr's article `Political Networking' the relationship began back 1790s when the Congress guaranteed newspapers and postal distribution subsidies. There were two kinds of subsidies discount rates to...