... to the highest bidder. When the news media represents a topic which the mass audience may have limited personal experience with the message is particularly potent because many audience members have no way of independently or critically judging the validity of the message news is not nesseccarly truth. On the internet, through protests, petitioning and even pressure, intermediaries, affect the emphasizes placed ... ...

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The German system of government is often referred to as a "Chancellor democracy" owing to the powers and responsibilities of the Federal Chancellor, head of federal government. The Chancellor is directly elected by the bundestag, Germany's parliament, upon the proposal of a candidate from the Federal President, currently Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog. The Chancellor is the only member of the government elected by the parliament and he alone is accountable to it. The Chancellor chooses the federal ministers that will compose the cabinet and proposes them to the President for appointment or dismissal. ...

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