Media can be destructive towards democracy

The Media can destroy democracy. The organized media can be instrumental in either destroying or helping the democratic spirit. 'Reporting' is important in a large society. But, should only positive factors be reported or can both positive and negative factors be reported? Of course, anything newsworthy can be reported; whether positive or negative. However, media must be very careful not to 'fan the winds of animosity or dissension'. Of all the segments of society, its the media that should be aware of the effects of language and since it's reporting events that actually occur among the People, it should be careful not to create animosity and dissension in the social. An individual is not in a position to know everything that is happening in the nation. So, naturally, the individual turns to the media and purports to make a judgment on the reported facts of some occurrence. Those reported facts in the media must be accurate and not questionable or dubious. More important yet, media should respect the proper functioning of democratic institutions. In other words, it should never second guess a properly established jury's decision. It should report it as final and as based on all the evidence submitted to the jury. The public is completely unaware of what occurred and the media is not in a position to report all the facts. Adjudicated facts will always raise issues, but the media should not 'build' on them. The media can very easily become a medium of 'institutionalized gossip'. That's dangerous and just makes a bad situation worse. Democracy cannot survive a lopsided presentation of adjudicated facts. The court system was set up to resolve these issues and we must be bound by the decisions. We don't have to agree with the decision, but we have to accept it. Otherwise, every court decision will constitute 'just cause' for revolution. Once a decision is rendered, the media should stay out of the fray. The media is not part of the Judiciary and should stick to reporting final decisions. In every jury decision, one side of the heard dispute is always unhappy. However, the media is not free to take sides and blow the issues out of proportion, and then, circulate it among the public. If the jury system needs to be changed, then change it, but don't 'build' on the decision.