In politics and educating the public on current events, acting as a <u>cheerleader</u> is not a role of the media.
<h2>What is the media?</h2>
The media can be defined as an organization that is saddled with the responsibility of reporting and educating current happenings (events) in various sectors of a society to the general public, either through print media or broadcast.
<h3>The roles ofthe media.</h3>
It acts as a watch dog.
It helps in setting an agenda or cause.
It acts as a gatekeeper because it is the Fourth Estate of the Realm.
However, the media doesn't act as a cheerleader when it comes politics and educating the public on current events because they are meant to maintain a neutral standpoint.
First the time series figures are plotted on a graph. The points are joined by straight lines. We get fluctuating straight lines, through which an average straight line is drawn. This method is however, inaccurate, since different persons may fit different trend lines for the same set of data.24-Mar-2019
