Critical Thinking: Detecting Media Bias

It is important that news broadcasting networks do not let personal bias effect the story that’s being told to its audience. People who watch the news, opinions are heavily influenced by the information given to them. Viewers think their opinion is original but are unaware that the information they receive is biased and is meant to influence and form their opinions about a certain topic or argument. Many believe that the news is unbiased and factual because journalist or experts are providing them with evidence.When, in fact, these news outlets are filled with producers, reporters, and writers, who share the same viewpoints. This is groupthink and groupthink is very prominent in news broadcasting networks. Groupthink is when a group of people who share the same ideologies make decisions as a group. In an interview with Fox Business’s John Stossel, Bernie Goldberg explains that groupthink effects the viewer because like-minded people at news networks only show the audience one-side of an argument or story because of their personal opinions on a the topic. This means that news

All three sources took either a neutral, minor, or highly biased position where the CBS article, the “Our Families Are Under Attack, So We Rise Up” article, and the “No Release for State Dreamer” article. While it is the essential job for the media to stay neutral, these mass media outlets are the ones that harbor the responsibility for perpetuation of misinformation due to their chosen pieces of research and evidence that they decide to integrate into their articles for all of the media to

The article has multiple authors and while the actual newspaper isn’t well known in the country, the information used is accurate when describing the last mass shootings in the United States.

(3).The reader believes the credibility of the sources is very much strong, because both articles gave many resources and data in which you may go find for yourself to see if indeed the facts are the facts, they also have cited were they got their information. They got books to further your reader too.

In summary, the article claims that an Al-Qaeda propaganda magazine, titled al-Masr?, stated that Bin Laden, upon hearing about the EgyptAir plane crash on November 1st, 2000, asked ?Why didn?t [Gameel Al-Batouti] crash [the plane] into a building?? Osama was said to be inspired by the deliberate crashing of the EgyptAir plane. The al-Masr? article then goes on to claim that that moment of inspiration was the origin of the 9/11 plot.

As an academic, one becomes increasingly aware of the biases in others’ writing. It becomes engrained - to dissect the author’s worldview and biases in order to best determine how those things are affecting their writing. This dissection is all the more important when it comes to journalism. In current times, it is not just the academics that are concerned about biases. The average populous has become increasingly aware that the information that mass media attempts to feed them can be biased beyond belief. The coverage of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail showcases the differences in how a singular event can be reported in very different ways beautifully.

The articles main purpose throughout is to inform. Because it is an article to mostly inform, it is riddled with facts throughout its entirety such as “Nearly 3,000 people died that day when Al Qaeda terrorists slammed hijacked planes

The first report I looked at comes from the Toronto Star, a Canadian news media. The first thing that comes across to me is the title, it included the name of the US president and mentioned how Trump is has lived up to his word so far in regards to his comment that he'd bomb Daesh. An important difference I noticed was the mentioning of the US soldier killed in action earlier that week and connecting it to the bombing. The Canadian news media reported that "37-year-old Mark Alencar, a Special Forces soldier [was] killed in counter-Daesh operations in the same providence" (Toronto Star, April 14, 2017). Out of four reports that I choose to analysis, only two mentioned the fall of the soldier, Canadian and US news media. This shows two

First and foremost, it was produced by NBC, a popular news company that was formed in 1940 and deals with all matters, including international. Furthermore, the article references significant people. Such as Professor Asif Siddiqi in New York and Alexei Kaltushkin, the head of Lin Industrial, a private space company. Additionally, the article cites factual evidence in order to construct an even strong argument. However, it must be noted that although there is no vested interest, Siddiqi is from New York, who is currently in a space race with Russia. It can be assumed that he is biased against Russia, but nonetheless the information he provides is

Media is everywhere, but determining what an accurate picture of reality is can be difficult. With all of the mainstream corporations out there, giving the people the full truth is not as important as protecting their economic interest. End The Lie leaves you with unanswered questions, while questioning the information given. However, The New York Times’ perspective of the Russian proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control goes more in depth and is more reliable than the alternative source End The Lie.

The article looks at all sides of the controversial bombing from a reliable source. It provides an in

The article lists several sources for information none of which are from creditable sources but from personal opinion articles and journalist. I have noticed the article contains a few grammatical errors, but no spelling errors. There is a source list and a link to the original article that the information derived from.

In today’s society, remaining connected and knowledgeable of current events and the newest trends is vital to staying ahead in business, education, and social standing. This information is supplied to everyone through the internet, newspapers, television, and radio. One can tune into stations such as CNN, NBC, Fox News, Al-Jazeera, and many others (“SQs of Media Outlets”). In order to meet the needs of viewers, readers, and listeners, the ideal media system would contain accurate, quick information, with a purely impartial view on the facts as they are known. However, this modern media system has not maintained an objective view, pushing opinionated and slanted reporting onto the population in order to create profit and gain customers. The exploitation of information media for personal gain has created a toxic and inaccurate present, constant in today’s society.

The last article comes from a news agency from the United States, called the Arizona Daily Star. As mention earlier, the only two articles the reported the death of the US soldier just a week before the bombing in Afghanistan were the Toronto Star and the Arizona Daily Star. The article published by the Arizona Daily Star tries to grab on the emotions of Americans back home by mentioning the death of the soldier and giving a specific description stating, "a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, 37, of Edgewood, Maryland was killed in action in Nangarhar" (Arizona Daily Star, April 14, 2017). The soldier killed touches all of us back home and just makes us think the dangers that American soldier put themselves through. The article mentioned that there have been "heavy fighting" in the area between the Afghan military and IS fighters (Arizona Daily Star, April 14, 2017). I feel the article gave details of the prior fighting because it serves as a good reason to justify why the bombing was necessary. It gives the impression that more American and Afghan lives were saved by avoiding going in directly and engaging Islamic State militants in the area where there is an "estimate of 600 to 800 IS fighters"(Arizona Daily Star, April 14, 2017). The articles goes to support the decision of the bombing by

Resolution of issue: “Israeli Jets Punish Syria; Hijack Frees Munich Trio.” The Evening Times , 30 Oct. 1972, p. 1.: Assuming a non-partisan stance, The Evening Times includes multiple statistics and facts about the events following the Munich massacre. It reports on the violence in Syria by retrieving information directly from Syrian sources, but also from Israel, showing no partiality by origin of source. Correspondingly, there are statements from both a Foreign Minister and a military spokesman, exhibiting no bias by use of sources. The empathy of the reader is triggered through the statement “a number of of civilians, including women and children, were killed or wounded in the raids”. While the inclusion of that description is meant to