Your text states that the mass media can play a relatively positive role in influencing and shaping the public agenda through the following techniques: Setting the public agenda. Framing issues. Serving as a watchdog to guard against fraud and abuse. Choose one of the three methods above and explain how the mass media coverage informs the public about politics and public affairs in a positive way, and how it can also mislead and distort the truth. In other words, can the media both enhance and undermine American democratic principles and values?

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