Media Bias Research Paper
Shanda Campbell
Professor Maki
English 111- Argumentative Synthesis
10 December 2014
Media Bias Covering our World There are many types of media bias that we see daily; if we turn on our computers, read our newspapers, or even watch the news stations on television, you will see some sort of bias. The types of bias change from station to station and from town to town depending on their views and culture background. The types of bias raiding our media are bias by omission, bias by selection of sources, bias by story selection, bias by placement, bias by labeling, and bias by spin. Touching on a few different forms of bias that plague our television and our forms of media will be to show how it may or may not necessarily be bias. This essay …show more content…
In Robert Kiener’s interview he states that “ 400 guests hosted by major Sunday morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox during the first three months of 2013, 40 percent were either Republicans or conservatives, and only 29 percent were Democrats or liberals; whereas nonpartisan and ideologically neutral guests made up 31 percent” (Kiener, Robert. 3 May 2013, Web). There seems to be pros and cons to every situation, as with the media, so let’s take a look at the pros and cons of Media Bias. Director of Media analysis, Tim Graham, is pro mainstream media bias according to Robert Kiener. He believes that you can tell if the mainstream is tilted left or right by listening to conservative and liberals are or complain about the news and the tone the story may be taking. Where the conservatives want the story to be both sided, liberals lament that the media present a false balance most of the time. Therefore, the media favors liberal views and downplay the conservative …show more content…
Now let’s look at what the world perceives the media bias to be and how it is different than a professional who looks at all aspects of the story rather then what is being said in hindsight. “In 2007 the Oregon tribune received a tip that former Vice President Al Gore had been accused of sexual assault” (Tom Price, Web). Nick Budnick, A reporter for the Oregon Tribune, chased the story. Budnick studying public police files, interviewed the accuser more than a dozen times, and looking over phone records from both the assumed victim and assumed predator. After discovering that the accuser failed a polygraph test and learning that the accusers alibi was that of a homeless man the Oregon Tribune did not proceed to run with the
Professor Maki
English 111- Argumentative Synthesis
10 December 2014
Media Bias Covering our World There are many types of media bias that we see daily; if we turn on our computers, read our newspapers, or even watch the news stations on television, you will see some sort of bias. The types of bias change from station to station and from town to town depending on their views and culture background. The types of bias raiding our media are bias by omission, bias by selection of sources, bias by story selection, bias by placement, bias by labeling, and bias by spin. Touching on a few different forms of bias that plague our television and our forms of media will be to show how it may or may not necessarily be bias. This essay …show more content…
In Robert Kiener’s interview he states that “ 400 guests hosted by major Sunday morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox during the first three months of 2013, 40 percent were either Republicans or conservatives, and only 29 percent were Democrats or liberals; whereas nonpartisan and ideologically neutral guests made up 31 percent” (Kiener, Robert. 3 May 2013, Web). There seems to be pros and cons to every situation, as with the media, so let’s take a look at the pros and cons of Media Bias. Director of Media analysis, Tim Graham, is pro mainstream media bias according to Robert Kiener. He believes that you can tell if the mainstream is tilted left or right by listening to conservative and liberals are or complain about the news and the tone the story may be taking. Where the conservatives want the story to be both sided, liberals lament that the media present a false balance most of the time. Therefore, the media favors liberal views and downplay the conservative …show more content…
Now let’s look at what the world perceives the media bias to be and how it is different than a professional who looks at all aspects of the story rather then what is being said in hindsight. “In 2007 the Oregon tribune received a tip that former Vice President Al Gore had been accused of sexual assault” (Tom Price, Web). Nick Budnick, A reporter for the Oregon Tribune, chased the story. Budnick studying public police files, interviewed the accuser more than a dozen times, and looking over phone records from both the assumed victim and assumed predator. After discovering that the accuser failed a polygraph test and learning that the accusers alibi was that of a homeless man the Oregon Tribune did not proceed to run with the