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the role of media is known to inform citizens about what is happening in any democratic state. critically discuss five relavent situations where media fails to fulfil such function.

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Essentially, media fails if if does not provide this information.

This could be because for example:
1) Media is corrupt
2) Media is pressured by the government
3) Media is owned by someone and represents this person's bias
4) Media is too poor to investigate
5) Media is threatened by extremists
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