How the news media works

Reporters keep track of elected government officials to make sure they follow the laws. They also keep the public informed about what the government is doing. People rely on the information they learn in the news to decide who to vote for and whether they approve of their current leaders and representatives.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

there purpose is to entertain