User talk:Phytopagan

Fourth Estate text
The second sentence in the entry "Fourth Estate" uses the subjective evaluation "indirect" to describe the media's social role as influential in government. Many of us would take issue that the media, in its primary role as dispensing agents of information from a variety of sources, has an "indirect" influence on government or on the social behaviors, decisions, and opinions of citizens. Whether or not one feels that the influence is quite direct (such as that of corporate donors on political decision-making) or somewhat less so, this statement describing media influence as "indirect" is ambiguous and a weak manner in which to introduce the information that follows.

Phytopagan (talk) 15:38, 11 October 2020 (UTC)