Technology gives us more forms of mass communication and mass media that might affect political discourse. When the internet age this has rapidly increased the number of voices and political communications outlets from a wide ideologically range.
With social media, political communication doesn't need traditional or commercial media to speak up their voice and directly communicate with those that agree with their ideological tune. This has given easier and cheaper access to political debate.
Also, it has led to debate over media bias and the impact of media ownership. As the access to media is wider and more open now, anyone can inform partisan news as impartial news. The impact of media ownership stands on how media owners create media bias to favour one or another partisan or ideological range.
Acting President of the United States is an individual who legitimately exercises the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States even though that person does not hold the office in their own right. There is an established order in which officials of the United States federal government may be called upon to take on presidential responsibilities if the incumbentpresident becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, or is removed from office (by impeachment by the House of Representatives and subsequent convictionby the Senate) during their four-year term of office, or, if a president has not been chosen before Inauguration Day, or if the president-elect has failed to qualify by that date.
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the United StatesExecutive branch of the U.S. Government
Executive Office of the PresidentStatusActing Head of State
Acting Head of GovernmentMember ofCabinet
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National Economic Council
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Presidential succession is referred to multiple times in the U.S. Constitution – Article II, Section 1, Clause 6, as well as the Twentieth Amendment and Twenty-fifth Amendment. The Vice President is the only officeholder named in the Constitution as a presidential successor. The Article II succession clause authorizes Congress to designate which federal officeholders would accede to the presidency in the event the vice president were unavailable to do so, which it has done on three occasions. The current Presidential Succession Act was adopted in 1947, and last revised in 2006. The succession order is as follows: Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then the eligible heads of federal executive departments who form the president's Cabinet, beginning with the
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