When we say the media is a business, what do we mean by that? how does that affect the way the media cover politics?

"Starting a media business to provide video, graphics, and other publicity campaign services to clients, who may not have an in-house marketing department, involves developing a business plan that describes your expertise and how you plan to create advertising, marketing and other promotional materials for your customers"

In other words:

Media is a way to promote and sell things like body image, products, and the biggest politics. Almost everyone has a form of social media so it's a perfect way to market things to all ages and genders and companies pay them for it. Ever seen in little words "sponsored" on top of an add? That means the company who made the add is paying those people to promote that. News channels are paid to update on politics whether its true or not. Therefore; It's business.

Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achieve desirable effects and avoid undesirable ones.

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