... not only lie in the financial gains it can provide. Throughout history, the media, specifically the newspapers, have had a very significant role in shaping our society. According to Dan Okrent, a famous journalist who gave a lecture in the Columbia university just last December 1999,print media are the media that matter?. A newspaper gives you timeliness. It is a firm, palpable entity, a presence in ... for the images the politicians project. The earliest written accounts of politicians massaging journalists? egos and pockets go back to the 1950's. Rene Constantino's :The State of the P...

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