Dear Student

Please find below the solution to your query

a. Media plays an important role in forming and expressing public opinion.

b. It influences our thoughts and moulds our attitudes to a great extent.

c. When we say media sets the agenda it means media itself decides what it needs to focus on and which news piece to be shown.

d. It is eventually that news item which is shown to us and grabs our attention and influences our thought process.

e. For example, media at times focuses extensively on a fashion show or on any film release ignoring some crucial social issues like displacement of people, shortage of water supply etc. Therefore those issues do not receive our attention.

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