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News organizations that report on stories in a fair, balanced and ethical manner are essential to the functionality of this nation. A citizen’s ability to make well-informed decisions hinges on a news organization’s ability to relay the most accurate information regarding the state of the nation, the changing condition of communities, and adjustments in the government. Journalism is no longer a one-sided conversation. Journalism is an interactive process that allows for readers and viewers to create a dialogue with journalists by utilizing mediums such as social networking sites and comment sections. Audiences have a say in what stories get reported and how news stories are presented to the masses. When news organizations fail to cover all

Whether the biases were applied deliberately or unintentionally, both the Washington Times and the Washington Post exhibited an inclination to a one political view, conservative and liberal respectively. A person’s beliefs and ideologies are part of what makes them who they are, but, although these are important, opinions should not hinder factual information or try to manipulate the reader’s judgement or point of view.

On the 3rd of February 1998, a U.S. military jet sliced the wire of a

Media sources are categorized as liberal or conservative, both have some similarities, but are also quite different. CBS News is considered a liberal source and one of the breaking news story’s headline on their website is, ‘Tulsa cop charged in death of unarmed black man’ while CNN has this headline, ‘Officer Charged : Tulsa police officer faces manslaughter charge in shooting.’ (CNN) Although they both have the same headline they both have different articles geared towards different views. CNN gears toward the side of the victim’s family, such as inserting several quotes stating, “ This is a small victory” Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany said, as well as, “The chain breaks here. We’re going to break the chains of police brutality,” she added, “We know the history.” (CNN) While, CBS rarely adds the viewpoint of the victim’s family, except for one that talks about Crutcher’s family relieved for the closing and that the family is “preparing for war.” (CBS) In this case these news sources use the objective of Bias by spin, because they spin towards one side or the other, and uses tone to persuade the reader to one side or the

I watch or read the news pretty regularly, but I only watch news which has the traits that I value most. The news to me isn’t about being entertained, it is about learning, in an unbiased, clear, and concise way. Other television shows can entertain, but the news should be reserved for information relevant to people’s everyday lives, allowing them to make informed decisions. I feel this way because I don’t like when a news source is pushing a hidden agenda. I look for a fair telling of both sides of the story. I also feel that because I stay relatively busy, I think it is insulting that the news would choose to waste my time with extraneous background information, off topic statements, or articles over 1,000 words. Most importantly though, It needs to be clear, if I can’t understand it, it’s the worst kind of news, no news. I have chosen three articles regarding the Flint Michigan water crisis to evaluate based on my criteria. One from CNN titled, “Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan, Draws Federal Investigation,” written by Greg Botelho, Sarah Jorgenson, & Joseph Netto, which focuses on the investigation but also background into the crisis. The next article I have chosen an article from the New York Times (NYT). This article titled, “As Water Problems Grew, Officials Belittled Complaints From Flint.” From the contributions of writers, Julia Bosman, Monica Davey, & Mitch Smith. I chose this article from other ones, because this article primarily focuses on politics like who

May 8, 2007. Plot by six men to attack soldiers at U.S. Army base at Fort Dix in New Jersey was averted. Modern day terrorist often choose targets that are easily defeated. The general public of women, children, and the elderly are acceptable losses.

Amidst all of the violence surrounding not only the United States, but also the whole world, I felt like the July 7th Dallas Shootings interested me. The attack took place on a Thursday evening during a Black Lives Matter Protest. The protest came shortly after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and occurred in many major cities that evening. After reviewing many different stories from both CNN and Fox News, I found one article hours after the attack occurred and one about one week later. This story definitely had a large amount of coverage online, in newspapers, and on television. The content of information was similar, but the article published one week after the killings had more accurate information since more become known

Despite being printed for the same date, in this case January 30th, 2014, the distinction can still be made, and by this it can be said that if the titles of the newspapers were removed it would not be hard to distinguish one from the other. By placing the front page of the New York Times (NYT) and of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) side by side, the reader can piece together few similarities and a greater amount of contrast between the two. These are especially true when looking at the stories that were covered, the amount of space some stories took compared to others, and the slants many of the headlines took.

While describing the conflict she adds, “We are a nation divided.” (Leodora) The article attends both sides of the story, and they are trying to appeal to the nation as a whole. The Times Herald itself, illustrates both sides of the story and is proven to have a high factual reporting. As Leodora differentiates between two solutions she illustrates “For security reasons, many public restrooms in city locations are locked...these are real issues, but they should never escalate to the point we have witnessed with this Starbucks story.” (Leodora) The article demonstrates no bias, because it continuously supports both sides. Continuously Leodora claims, “This is a result of the incredible racial divide that has developed in this country.” (Leodora) With a neutral party article the reader is drawn in by the correlations made, thus influencing them to believe this incident was no ones’ fault. There is a negative effect on society, because looking at both sides expresses the distraught racial divide, strengthening the emotional appeal on the audience.This article is highly effective since it represents both sides of the story, that utilizes loaded language to favor both conservative causes. The critical reader

The mass media is responsible for providing the general public with information regarding current events and issues that are occurring in the world. In addition, journalists have the ability to influence and impact individuals’ ideologies about certain topics by the way they present the information, either in a positive or negative manner (Beckford 1994). On the other hand, scholarship strives to methodologically and critically study and analyze a phenomenon in order to present factually correct information. Furthermore, this paper will discuss the difference between journalism and scholarship, and will use the tragic incident that occurred at Waco as an example to illustrate each fields differences in discussing/reporting the events that unfolded.

As my analysis has pointed out, the NBC news article is more neutral in presenting the selection of people interviewed included, factual information and rhetorical appeals using pathos while the Fox news article focuses on preserving their bias views on Dylann Roof’s sentencing and biasedly focused on including distracting information, victim’s testimony only and using rhetorical appeals. I chose Fox news as my more bias source because in the past Fox has been the subject of several controversies and allegations of bias reporting. In contrast, NBC news has been mentioned as a more neutral source in reporting news and remaining impartial in reporting. Based on the bias I uncovered in the Fox news article, I can merely see the comparison within

Crime reporting and world terrorism reporting is based loosely on ideological thoughts (Jewkes, Pg.36, 2004) Additionally, media theories state that media outlets have agenda setting topics that can influence public mania, discourse and persuade political ideologies. In addition, the media effect theories focus on the purposeful manipulation of story content, times the story is reported, and what tone the story is reported in. other theories, for example, the mass media society theory which defines the link between crime and media is a

A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles In this essay I will be comparing two articles taken from local

Newspapers need to continue to inform the public but in New Orleans with Internet dominating the two papers are competing for the top spot one is called : The New Orleans Advocate versus the Times Picayune as stated in lines (1-3) of the second passage. Both companies are competing for the top spot in the city of New Orleans the two companies are only two city blocks away. In lines (32-41) it states that the companies are both going digital to increases profits the decision was made by first Picayune’s parent company New York based Advance publications.

The first mass media that developed came in the form of print media: newspapers. In addition to books and magazines, printed media traditionally tends to be more fact oriented. Print media can be more analytical in their reporting and can cover a story in more detail, and are less suited to emotional, visceral reporting than, say, television (Surette, 12). Newspapers contain only news and not the fictionalized crime drama presented on television. But that is not to say that print media is not capable of sensationalism all the same. A 1988 study found that newspapers in the mid – 1980s covered violent crimes (murder, robbery, rape, assault) four times more frequently than property crimes (burglary, larceny, theft), even though property crimes are nine times more prevalent (Krajicek, 98).