Public opinion, the media and their influence on public policy

by Kevin Flanders

Ever since the 1920's governments and powerful individuals have used public relations techniques to take advantage of large masses of people. As a result, public relations has established itself as the most effective form...read more

by Dave Real

Fox News, CNN, The New York Times and Headline News...what do they all have in common? That's right, they are all owned by a larger company. One would hope that this larger company has the nations interest in mind, but a...read more

by Frances Ruocco

If we read the book "John Adams" by David McCullough, we will realize that since the first printing presses were in existence people would write good and bad about famous people. During our fight for Independence and afte...read more

by David Lopatic

When most people think of government and changes in policies they think institutions or branches of the government.; however these are only the final stages in the process. There are many other factors the influence the g...read more

by Mathew Paul

HOW A LETTER TO THE EDITOR CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Ross Perot and Steve Forbes have spent a fortune trying to change public opinion, get elected to the Presidency and then change the course of history. Of cour...read more

by Shoaib Khan

When we think of the term indoctrination, when we think of the use of propaganda in order to indoctrinate, it conjures up images of a past, steeped in gloom, bloodshed and ill-feeling towards particular sec...read more

by Titania Jones

Public opinion, the media and their influence on public policy In the vein of political theorist V.O. Keyes, I believe that the validity of public opinion is only as good as the what the media leads them to believe. Tak...read more

by Mark White

Old Liberals Meet the New Progressives The Progressive Party is mired in the past and rudderless. The far left have changed their names from liberal democrats to Progressives, as if somehow their failed, outdated, overp...read more