The Crucial Role of Mass Media In today’s information driven, ever-changing society we, as the American people, depend more and more on the mass media to play an influential role in our day to day lives. The American people of today rely on the mass media for information on all aspects of life ranging to what we know about others, the scope of the political arena, national concerns and, information on the world outside the United States more today than ever before in our nation’s past. This crucial role of the mass media is recognized and protected by our government under the First Amendment. Our founding fathers granted the press this freedom in hopes that it would u