Essays on Media Bias

Everyday millions of Americans plop down in front of their TVs to get their daily intake of news and current events of what happened that day. Sadly, most of the news and facts they are getting have been altered somehow by someone at the news corporation or by the reporters themselves. In the numerous news…

On November 24th, a Russian Su-24 fighter plane was shot down near the border between Turkey and Syria by Turkey for violating their airspace. Russia has contested whether this was true, and different countries with different biases have reported on the event differently. The Russian Moscow Times released a surprisingly short report on the event….

As I walk down the street and spot a police officer, I suddenly try to act as normal as possible and get nervous, fearing the officer will stop me just for being suspicious. Many of my fears of the police stem from their portrayal by the media as strict by the book enforcers and brutal…

Is there a liberal media bias, and actually how big could this phenomenon be? You can tune into such programs like, “Rush Limbaugh” and, “The Colbert Report”, shows that clearly show a political bias, but are these biases’ hidden in everyday programs that we the people are un aware of. “Media bias is a perceived…

Media bias is an issue that has been in discussion for a long time (Sloan and Jenn, 12). In most cases, the media presents information in the way they desire it to be perceived and not the way the situation was at the scene. In order to expound on this, the article ‘Advertisers are looking…

Abstract The media plays a major role in covering political campaigns and based on where Americans go to get their news could play an active role in how Americans perceive policy issues and political candidates. The purpose of this research paper is to examine social media platforms and press coverage to identify how they play…

Is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions? According to an article written by Robert M. Entman, the term bias “seems to take on three major meanings. Sometimes, it is applied to news that distorts or falsifies reality (distortion bias), sometimes to news that favors one side rather than…

People everywhere always have something to say about a certain topic. This could leave topics to be controversial or given rise for disagreement. This includes everyday people including the people that write for the news or people you can see in the media. These objectionable views that are displayed for other people to see is…

All over the world, media ownership is a tangled web dominated by a few large media conglomerates who own a variety of mass media enterprises ranging from newspapers to radio stations, television channels and even movie studios. Take the United States for example; here, media ownership is dominated by four players – the Disney Company,…

Media bias in the news has been around since the beginning of it. Media is a name for the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data comprised of multiple media firms and corporations that produce content relevant to societal needs. “Media was perhaps best exemplified by a popular 1992 Republican…