Liberal Pluralism

Media Assumptions:

1. Media help to give voice to all views and to provide a forum for public debate.

2. Media provide the information necessary for citizens to act.

3. Media are independent of the power of economics and government.

4. Media serve as an independent institution keeping watch over self-serving government and excessive influence of special interest groups.

5. Assumes an information as opposed to a social constructivist model of communication.