Liberal Bias

Media plays a huge role in today's society. Media, in its many forms, can be very persuasive and can change how people view a certain topic. The past few years, media has greatly affected how people feel about topics such as: gay rights, abortion, racism, and anything political. Depending on what site, or source you are on, media can depict the topic you research however it wants. It has been argued that there are political bias in media, which is not wrong. You can find just about anything in whichever political view you want. When talking politics, there are multiple media outlets that are party-based. Even in print, you can find just about anything in favor of what you believe if you look for it. Media does a fantastic job of manipulating people to believe certain things without the audience realizing it. The media provides constant information about politics, and in more times than not, political rather than professional. In this lesson, we learned about liberals and conservatives and how political parties can be affected through media bias and public opinion.

For conservatives, they believe that most of the reporters are democrats. In a survey by David Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, they found that more reporters are democrats than republicans. When looking at the analysis of campaigns, conservatives believe that media bias determine the type of stories. An example would be the 1992 election. For liberals, they believe that reporters are not reporters but instead owners, experts and so on. They believe that networks, newspapers and magazines are a big business that was owned by big corporations like ABC, NBC and so on. Hahn has a different perspective on bias. He believes that what conservatives and liberals see as bias sometimes is not bias but something else. Real media bias is what makes more money. The reason is to make the viewers and readers happy. Examples include television, support of the status quo, assumptions of American society, bad news and so

The evaluation of research and studies was conducted in order to assess possible liberal bias in the media. Through consideration of studies within the past twenty years, certain implications and causes of media bias are addressed and explained. As there are multiple viewpoints surrounding media bias, many stances are observed. Media bias is justified through a matter of diversity, party affiliation, liberal expectations, and varying definitions of bias. The results of these studies show that while media bias may exist, it not significant. It is also found true that most journalists have left sided beliefs, but tend to claim moderate. The negative reputation of bias is ultimately defended, and it is found that this bias can be considered positive in some aspects.

Bias is allowed to enter the media coverage of politics. Graber (2010) states “U.S. courts usually have held that the print media have a nearly absolute freedom to determine what they will or will not print and whose views they will present” (p.51). Generally, most Americans do not favor press freedom. However, as long as unregulated media avoids libel and slander, as well as publishing top-secret information, legal restraints cannot hamper their publishing decisions. The United States Supreme Court defines print press rights in the case of Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo (1974). The Court ruled unanimously that newspapers could print or refuse to print anything they like. The media performs four major functions for government

When I started thinking critically about this assignment, I realized that I was stuck. I couldn’t think of a single bias that I could possibly have against someone but then it donned on me that I would have to go deeper and understand that biases can come in many different forms. And since I am not a professional therefore have never provided therapy to someone on a professional level, I am virtually unaware of what my potential biases are. So to solve this problem, I decided to think about my personal experiences and document the ones that caused me to have any sort of negative emotions about.

This article will be very helpful in my research project because it helps me understand the media bias argument from a different perspective. Now, my research will have both the liberal and conservative view on media bias. Both authors have very extensive backgrounds as professors which demonstrate their credibility. Although their personal bias could possibly skew their writing, they have numerous statistics to demonstrate the credibility of the research.

A liberal is a person that believes that the government should provide equality for all, while a conservative is a person that believes in limited government and that the government should provide the necessary freedom for people to pursue their own goals. Over time, it has been argued, mostly by conservatives, that there is a liberal bias in the media. Liberals have combated this idea with the belief that conservative media is devoted to making efforts to invoke fear and division in the general public. Though liberals make a fine counter-argument, it is easier to observe that the media is liberal-biased. The liberal versus conservative debate can be compared to facts versus values. Another reason for bias within the media is that a significant percentage of minorities, or smaller groups within the population that are often thought to be poorer, politically identify themselves as liberals. To make these minorities feel like the government is on their side as well as everyone else’s, the media must accommodate the needs of these minorities. Because of this, the media becomes liberal-biased.

In 2011, Jen Wang was finishing up her freshman year at Connecticut College. As a young girl growing up in New Jersey, Jen took her first SAT when she was in the sixth grade, long before other students her age would even start to think about college. Jen said that test preparations for standardized tests, like the SAT, took up most of her free time that could have been used to do other things (Billy). The SAT’s early intent was to open doors of higher education to students without traditional credentials, but now this test is held at high esteem, the biggest indicator of college success (Mulugetta). Although standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT are used to “level the playing field” for students across the country, these tests add little

One problem that plagues us everyday without us even realizing it is media bias. We see it in the news. We see it on our favorite sitcoms. We read it everyday in the paper. Yet, we really don't recognize it when we hear it or see it. Media bias is evident in every aspect of the media, yet the problem is that we don't even recognize it when it is right in front of our faces. Are the impressions that we form about individuals a product of the media? Do we form certain opinions about particular types of people based solely on the things we see and hear in the media everyday without even realizing it? The problem is not only that there is media bias present, but also that we can't recognize it when we see it.

News sources carry the persona of giving biased information in the vast majority of cases-whether or not you may consider that as a “good” or “bad” thing. No matter what news source you retrieve your information from, there is almost assuredly a flaw in the way that news is presented to the audience, in order to try and persuade you to follow their bias. Oftentimes the bias is politically based; for instance, Fox News is believed to show bias in favor of the Republican party, professional sports outlets may be biased towards certain teams or players, certain articles or reports may be biased towards a certain race, and so on. The bottom line is no matter how significant (or insignificant) the news may be, or what the subject of the news may

The reality is that objectivity in reporting is impossible because the information is being filtrated through humans. Even if they try to be as objective and unbiased as possible they will still be making decisions regarding what to include and what not to. That states that every news outlet will be somehow bias, might be liberal or conservative, or maybe just trying to make the story more dramatic or appealing to the public. Most bias is unintentional, liberal reporters might happen to know more liberal sources or get around with mostly liberals.

The media today has become a topic of concern for many members of the general population. Am I getting a reliable source of information? Is this source withholding the truth and ameliorating a topic? If I know that the information being reported is false, how can I trust that any other information from this source can be trusted? These are several questions that a particular citizen might make on a day to day basis, and when the question of bias is thrown into the mix, an overwhelming feeling of mistrust in our media can ensue. Media sources today are siding more and more towards their viewers political views, and this creates a form of media-bias that can spread untrustworthy information out into the public. Depending on your media source,

Stossel’s and Goldberg’s conversation, Goldberg tells Stossel the reason behind bias in the media when he states, “as a result of groupthink, the news that your colleagues said “we’re just telling the truth”, but some were telling the truth filtered through a liberal prism and that’s the problem with bias; that too many like-minded people are making the decisions on what the audience and reader get to read and see on T.V..” This means that most news sources are bias due to the people at the news network who all have the same beliefs. That is why when a current event occurs, it is important that the individual goes to the correct sources or goes to several different sources to get all sides of the event or story, unbiased.

In this new day and age we are granted with advanced technology that helps every one of us. A major capability that we now have is the capacity to spread information like no other. The television and internet are major sources to access material and influence the masses. The question becomes whether these sources really inform the people, or just put information out that benefits the few. Evening news is where the breaking stories take place and where we can see the difference in channel ideology. Citizens have a right to know what is going on in the country but due to biases we see this fail. This causes televison to poison the electoral system, glorify conflicts, and polarize views.

There are many different hidden truths in the media that people do not know about due to the fact that the media emphasizes on just one particular point of view. Throughout the years, people have been biased in the media and the reason as to why this happens is that people choose to lean on one side such as republican, democrat, libertarian, or conservative. To be biased means to only be on one side of an argument or situation and only favor more of what one person has to say. There are a variety of different news channels in which they all tend to lean more on one side, there is not a single news channel that is on the same side as another. There are many current events that have multiple contentious between other news channels. The viewers