Examples Of Political News

People automatically assume that a news organization’s bias is strictly a bad thing, while this does seem like a bad thing, the bias is negated by the sheer quantity of news sites that you can easily visit, this may take some additional time, but it doesn’t have to take a long time, while you’re stuck in traffic you can just pull out your smartphone and look at some news sites. If you find that one site has too much of a bias that doesn’t mean that you should just ignore that site completely, instead you should look for the same news story on a different site that has a different perspective, instead of just looking at the media from one point of view, look at both the left and right point of view. This bias allows for a look into how both sides see an argument, while one side may see something as a good thing, another side may see it as a bad thing. This allows you to get into the mind of the news stations and their reporters. While you're watching the news always maintain a level of skepticism about what the news station is saying. Skepticism is key to watching the news in any environment, without any level of skepticism you quickly become a mindless zombies that just believe something because it was said on Fox NEWS or MSNBC. You should take into account all the things said by the different news stations in order to formulate

In the study, each source was ranked based on the political leanings of its audience. As a result, it ranked sources such as Buzzfeed more liberal than average while it ranked sources such as the Rush Limbaugh Show more conservative than average. However, none of the sources earned a perfectly neutral ranking (Wormald). The correlation between news sources and their audience’s political leanings becomes interesting when compared to the type of content each news source produces. Rush Limbaugh, for example, is infamous for his conservative rhetoric, whereas Buzzfeed is known for its lighthearted quizzes and comical representation of liberal politics. This reveals something about our perception of truth: biased sources allow individuals to ‘select’ the truth. When conflicting information is pushed to the side, it becomes nonexistent. Subsequently, the sum of partial truths interpreted by an individual becomes a whole truth in their mind, especially when partial truths are reinforced by mainstream media sources such as Buzzfeed or the Rush Limbaugh Show. This is harmful because, as Lewis implied, the entire truth is lost in this process and mutual understanding becomes harder to

Journalists play an important part in the democratic process. Traditionally, the roles of the news media are to provide a forum for debate, represent opposing perspectives on the day’s issues and hold public officials accountable while serving their constituents. However, in recent decades, media has given way to biased forms of news— partisan media. In Matthew Levendusky’s “How Partisan Media Polarize America,” he explores if these partisan media influences viewers. The book’s second chapter, “What Do Partisan Media Actually Say?” concludes that partisan media promotes a larger agenda separately to Democrats and Republicans, attack the opposing side while denouncing compromise, and usually side with their candidate of choice during

In America today, most people have their own political views. Some are legitimate, and some are the cause of one main problem: media bias. Certain media outlets are promoting biased political views on television, the internet, and social media. People that watch and read these biased media sources are constantly believing more and more of the false information that they are presenting. Media bias and fake news in the United States is a major contributing factor to many citizens’ political views, especially as a result of news outlets that promote a liberal agenda.

Although it provides no support through logic or emotion, confidence can create credibility from the audience about a subject if the speaker can appear he knows what he is saying. Oliver has delivery techniques to create confidence. An example used would be his deliverance of how he speaks. He appears confident and is coherent in his voice and body language as he presents his warrants and backings. Also, Oliver is a celebrity who gets paid to provide arguments on current news, therefore giving the viewers more credibility to what he says. Lack of confidence would cause the speaker to appear similar to having no idea what he is talking about, and Oliver shows the confidence required to properly talk about the

The apparent goal of some American news media - particularly cable news shows and talk radio- is to “stimulate” a problem. According to one news source, “What works in cable television news is not an objective analysis of the day’s events but hard-nosed, unstinting advocacy of a specific point of view on a sizzling-hot topic”. Although individuals may turn on the television to get information on current events and issues, they are likely to get the station’s detailed, bias, perspective on it instead. One instance where this has occurred is on the Bill O’Reilly Show, which airs on fox.

Uninformed viewers which make up most of the public who do not consider themselves partisan or involved in politics are heavily affected by televised presidential debates. These viewers catch only glimpses of candidates and their policy positions. Because of their lack of knowledge, these viewers

A news programs bias and political party standings can effect what types of propaganda they show of certain candidates. For example, FOX news is a strictly Republican news channel, it supports Republican candidate, meanwhile news channels such as MSNBC and PBS are extremely democratic programs and support Democratic candidates in elections. News programs political bias can affect the way that particular program portrays a candidate for an upcoming election and a candidate’s portrayal can change a voter’s opinion of a candidate and can cause that candidate to lose viewers’ votes. The broadcasting of malicious rumors and gossip in any form by news programs gives a negative conception to a viewer. No viewer wants to vote for a candidate that is portrayed in a way that makes the viewer believe that they are bad for the country. Every viewer needs to take in to consideration the political bias of a news program before changing his or her opinion of a candidate as well as do some research on the candidates of an election themselves.

The talk radio program that I chose to listen to was Janet Parshall’s In the Marketplace. The topic discussed during this program was the Republican Presidential Debate. The host, Janet Parshall, and her husband Craig lead the conversation. A few people called in and voiced their opinions on the subject as well. It was an hour long program that discussed many different things that had happened during the Republican Presidential Debate.

According to the book Celebrity Politics, approximately 10 percent of Americans get national political news from nightly entertainment shows such as the Tonight Show. For Americans under 30, the number is nearly five times as many (Orman and West 100). Citizens are looking to be entertained rather than simply educated by the nightly news. As David Schultz aptly put it, “ The new media cover politics, but only politics as it entertains, in part, because the audience the new media attract is a less politically interested audience than traditional news audiences” (20). The fact is that this American audience is less interested in hard news and more interested in

For a week I chose to watch and compare The Rachel Maddow Show and The Philip DeFranco Show. I had chosen to compare the two because they are both personality driven news shows, with the similar format of one presenter and a skew towards a liberal political stance. These similarities will allow me to more clearly see a difference in how I consume the content. The format of the show hosted by Maddow, a cable news show on MSNBC, has remained for the most part, static, it could have been produced 30 years ago to the same effect through television. Whereas, DeFranco’s show on YouTube would never have been able to exist in its capacity if it were not for the internet. Clearly marking the distinction between old and new media to me.

John Oliver and his team research every aspect of the arguments when making the videos. They are able to find out all the statistics and, do enough research to also predict the counter arguments and shows why they are not valid. One of the points John

This type of situation is what shows how social media can be used for when important or drastic events occur. Another thing that I learned more about would be the usage of the newspaper, which many of us use it to become aware what is occurring in our state or local area. Something that I thought was interesting was the concept of three minutes, five minute, and thirty minutes, which means the amount a person spends reading something that is presented to them. I believe that it is something that is accurate because many people do not spend a lot of time reading an event. What I will take away from the discussion would be that everyone has different opinions about things, which is something that you cannot regardless of what type of facts or ideas is presented. How the political aspect relates to my personal life in the United States would that I have to become aware of my rights, new policies that develop in places where I live, and where I go to college, etc. These are factors that politics can affect my

After thorough research of both major and other minor political parties, I plan to register as a Republican because none of these parties’ platforms align closely enough to my personal beliefs. I reached this conclusion after looking at all the issues that Republican has taken a stand which are economy, education and immigration.

Today, most people that live in America are somehow involved in politics, whether it is running for office, keeping up with current events, liking politician’s social media posts, or something as simple as voting. Those who engage themselves in politics whether it be a lot or a little begin to develop a political attitude based on their political socialization. For example, growing up in a household where politics is not the topic at dinner allowed me to venture out and explore my own beliefs. To do this I turn to mass media like social media and the news to allow me to stay current with events and to explore not only my beliefs but the other side’s beliefs.