The Pros And Cons Of Fake News

“I am not going to give you a question. You are fake news.” This is the now infamous response from President Donald Trump during his first press conference since taking office when asked “Sir, can you give us a chance to ask a question?” by CNN reporter Jim Acosta (Johnson, 2017). President Trump’s dismissal of Accosta sparked the colloquial usage of the term “fake news,” a phrase the current president uses to lambaste media sources who report stories that do not present a favorable impression of his presidency. However, true “fake news,” has existed for far longer than Donald Trump’s presidency and includes three main types: satire, biased reporting, and deliberate misinformation. Fake news has grown in quantity and now Americans across the country are expressing concerns about not being able to trust media sources once considered honest and reputable, along with having trouble distinguishing between real and fake news.

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

On the internet there are hundreds of thousands of different news articles, but not all of them are real. Fake news is a type of hoax or deliberate misinformation that you can find almost anywhere mostly because of social networking platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and News Feed.

Many publicly well-known media outlets, such as CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post strongly promote liberal views. These media outlets report stories that turn out to be false or edited after further inspection. Furthermore, almost all of their coverage of President Trump and other conservative figures was negative. According to Student News Daily, “President Trump received 92% bad press, vs. just 8% good press on the ABC, CBS and NBC

The interviewees themselves admit to noticing mainstream media bias. While there is no clear indication if the media is biased leaning towards the right or left on the political spectrum, each news outlet provides its own form of bias that it wishes to portray. The news holds power to frame presidential candidates and perceive them how they want viewers to, especially in today’s constantly growing popularity as America slowly decides who wants to be their next president. One my of biggest findings of these interviews were Spencer’s accusations that mainstream media is very biased and that he doesn’t approve of them. This supports the argument that the American media is biased in one way or another and that not all committed conservatives or liberals put their trust into popular news outlets. The gentlemen I interviewed strive for more neutrality in the media. America needs to improve its market-dominated news outlets so that citizens may be able to educate themselves further and better familiarize themselves for what news and journalism truly should

When Americans attempt to find the truth in the media, it is important Americans realize what bias each individual media platform has. In the beginning of television, there were only 3 major news channels. These news networks were: ABC, CBS, and NBC; also known as “Mainstream Media”. The mainstream media held views that aligned with American liberals and seemed to always side with this group and were the only news stations for Americans to view. Ultimately, since these were the only news outlets available, whatever views these news stations presented to its watchers, were the only opinions that the majority of Americans held. However, as time went on cable television was created and gave Americans additional news networks. In 1980, CNN debuted

News media has a largely, overwhelming influence on Americans in this day and age. Over the years, audiences have been exposed to various types of broadcast journalism, each with their own forms of bias to generate attention towards various topics. The audience perceive bias in news media program. An in-depth analysis of bias on opinionated news compared to non-opinionated news is key to figuring out how the news media may be sensationalizing a problem.

Using a “common understanding” of what liberal and conservatism means, National Review and the Progressive were chosen to be the standard of conservative and liberal media. Time and Newsweek were considered to be largely more neutral in their coverage. So, by comparing the two neutral magazines to the two partisan magazines the amount of bias could be measured (Adkins). The results found that Time and Newsweek proved to be largely centrist; however, there was a slight bias to the center-left. This finding, however, was not statistically significant and the two publications remain in the “center” range (Adkins). Other studies have shown that there is little evidence to support the notion that the media as a whole is significantly biased in one direction or the other. However, there is evidence that there is a slight liberal bias in television network news (D’Alessio). Despite these findings, 70% of Americans believe that the media as a whole are biased compared to just 55% in 2014. However, earlier findings and studies show that on a large scale there is roughly a balance between conservative and liberal media sources which refutes the idea that as a whole the media are “biased”. Instead, it is more akin to a “tug-of-war” in which each side balances each other out. So this leads to the question as to why a greater number of

Before the time of the internet, people got their news strictly from that of basic television, radio, and newspapers. This limited the amount of viewpoints any given person could hear or see, and in turn left the opportunity to spin information one way or another open. Today, that flaw still exists, but there are now competing views of any given story. For television networks, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and ABC are seen as liberal news stations, while FOX is seen as a conservative station. Both sides are guilty of having a bias toward their respective views,

According to James Carson from The Telegraph, the term emerged when President Donald Trump called out news sources for their inaccurate and biased reporting during his presidential campaign season. As the weeks and months go on since he made this accusation, fake news is popping up and being discovered all over the digital world. Much of this fake news is from unreliable or unknown sources, but it is delivered in a believable manner. Fake news is the digitized version of community gossip. It has grown into a monster that is out of any one person’s control, but unlike in the physical world, the spread of fake news is nearly immediate upon its creation, and its reach stretches far beyond walls, borders, and

In America today there are two major news providers bringing you news up to the hour, contrary to popular belief. Both providers have one general major downside and that’s that they are both biased towards two different political parties. Fox news likes to cover the news in a way that it benefits the views of Conservatives/ Republicans. On the other hand CNN news likes to cover news that Democrats/ Liberals want to

Specially, almost all negative reports about the President from the establishment media such as the New York Times and the Washington post, Trump would slander the news organizations as “Fake News” and “Enemy of the People” knowingly the consequences of his actions. In addition with Trump crusade, there is a deep partisan divide and negative attitudes towards media. A recent research study conducted by Pew shows that there is a deep partisan division on attitudes of the media. In particular, Democrats voters are 47 points more likely than Republicans to support a news media watchdog role. Furthermore, 89% of Republicans had agreed that news organizations have tendency to favor one side, contrast with Democrats only 34% of respondents. Finally, there is a partisan division in way of Clinton voters and Trump voters had received their news. Particularly, looking at Trump voters 40% of respondents get their news from right-wing cable news organization, Fox News. As a consequence, millions of Americans are watching heavily Trump propaganda and conspiratorial cable news network. Especially, the Pizza Gate and the Birtherism movement were all propagate on Fox News. More recently, right-wing activist are making waves into local news stations. This is apparent with the rise of Sinclair Broadcasting, who owns 173 stations in 81 broadcasting markets. In a viral video

The media plays an important role by providing coverage on politics, terrorism, and anything that affects the public. With the recent terror attacks transpiring in and out of the U.S, more people are tuning in to the news. However, numerous news stations are presenting information with a bias. Corporations such as G.E, Disney, Time Warner, and CBS own the majority of news network have hidden agendas to further manipulate, what is being allocated in the media. Conservative news stations, voice strong opinions on the recent incidents of ISIS and how President Barack Obama is delegating the issue. Conservative news exploits three types of media bias, each containing semiotics, and fallacies to misinterpret the truth about the President’s

One of the easiest ways to see the influence of media bias is through the election season. Political propaganda has a major effect on potential voters during this time because of the magnitude of the event. There was a study done in 2007 that discovered that Fox News, who is known to be republican bias, had convinced 3% to 28% of their listeners to vote republican (Knight, Chiang, 2008). On the reverse side, readers of the primarily democratic Washington Post’s probability to vote democrat, increased by 8% (Knight, Chiang, 2008). What this shows is that in a

As the world evolves and changes due to the explosion of technology, so does mankind's ways of intellectual comprehension of informative news. The present day of news has overemphasized the meaning of fake news; which represents any form of false information that is illustrated as factual news. That tends to spread throughout the internet and the media. Misinformed news has taken over the world in so many ways, such as the birth of satirical and sketchy news, the financial motivation to publish actual false news, and difficult to sustain news.