How does the media and government work?

Media plays a large role in the government and how policies and legislation are portrayed. On certain bias or politically affiliated news station, certain legislature or government action would be portrayed in a certain light, but on a different station, the portrayal would be completely different. Both the government and media have the ability to manipulate the population, and give us the information they deem necessary for us. The government acts as a gatekeeper in the sense that certain information or images are not aloud to be showed over the air. The government limits media, and the media limits government. The media has power over the government in that if a certain broadcaster wants to bash the government, under the first amendment it can, and will have a large impact on the people.

There is a delicate system of checks and balances between the news and media. The government passes legislature limiting the media and the media has the power to completely sway public opinion.