Essays on Media Bias

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,…

The peak of the fall season usually involves Thanksgiving and other holiday dinners. As we begin to approach the 2020 Presidential election, those holiday dinners can turn into hostile political interactions. Especially in families with split Democratic and Republican views, it can be an issue because each side has a different view, especially with the…

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…

On September 11, The twin towers were attacked. The New York Times began its story with: The New York Times: September 12, 2001 ‘U.S. Attacked: Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon in Day of Terror” Orlando Sentinel: September 12, 2001 wrote, ‘’Today, our nation saw evil’: Bush: Worst-ever attack on U.S. will not…

Bias, a one-sided view heavily influenced by the emotional appeal or gain of an individual or group. In a democracy, it is important that readers are educated to make wise decisions to further the advancement and profitability of their country. However, agendas exist with politicians, businesses, and events reliant on mass support to advance their…

Media bias is a political bias in journalistic reporting, in programming selection, or otherwise in mass communications media. The media selectively chooses what they want to release to the public to program the majority of people that watch the news regularly to think a certain way. CNN and MSNBC are often cited as examples of…

You wake up it is 6:00 AM. You walk out to watch the morning news, then the question; what news station should I watch? On one hand you have CNN, MSNBC, and ABC news who are more of a left leaning news source and on the the other hand Fox News and Fox Business. Now,…