Mass media: seen by some as the root cause of all of the world's problems, and by others as their answer. With capacity to be used either to foster free speech and intellectual discussion, or as a tool of government propaganda, the effects of mass media can range from infinitely positive to infinitely negative. In the specific cases of the Canada and the People's Republic of China, the media infrastructures in both have been long …showed first 75 words of 3659 total…

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