What is the role of the media in a representative democracy?

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 0.78, The University of Adelaide, language: English, abstract: The role of the media and how well it is performed will be discovered throughout this essay. Further enquiry will be made into the unique relationship between the government, media and the public and what ramifications that has for a representative democracy. Scho...