How can the media help an individual who wishes to have an active influence on government? People can learn about government leaders and interest groups through the media.
The person can join a candidate’s campaign and help organize rallies for the candidate.
Voters should ask members of the media for advice on whom to vote for in an election.
Active citizens can trust one media source for all their information about government.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.