Question

What are some ways politicians use the media to Influence public opinion? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answers are A, B and E. Some ways by which politicians use the media to influence public opinion are writing opinion columns in magazines about current events; running advertisements on television explaining their views; and erecting election billboards along major highways.

Explanation:

Today, politicians use the mass media to be able to give a greater reach to their political proposals and ideologies, based on the enormous projection that these media have to reach a huge number of people.

Thus, politicians use different strategies to be able to massify their ideas, such as the use of spaces in newspapers to write opinion columns, the projection of television advertising to expand their ideas, and even the use of publicity in the public space to through posters and brochures; all with the aim of massifying both its image and its ideas.