Essays on Media Bias

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias The issue of illegal immigration has been discussed for decades. State and federal legislation has been drafted in order to respond to the issue, however, these policies have had an insignificant effect on the flow of people coming into the country illegally. In addition to the anemic effect that laws related to illegal immigration have on solving the problem, politicians will commonly leverage the issue as a means to manipulate their own popularity. The divisive nature of the issue is such that the nature of proposed response can influence the voting decisions ...

Essay 1- We don’t make news, we just report it, or do we?

It can be argued without any contradiction that the fast-changing media has always and will continue to set the national agenda on many issues, particularly in the political arena. Political polarization, media bias and being a people’s “watchdog” are some of the agenda that the media drives today (Doris & Dunaway p. 10). For the purpose of this essay, media bias, both conservative and liberal, and its impact are discussed from a political point of view. A liberal story that suffices is the one done by the Daily Caller news website in 2010 (Huston, p.1). The “Journolist” was a ...

Within the article, Media Bias – Is Slanted Reporting Replacing Objectivity by CQ Researcher, it is discussed as to whether media coverage is biased within the United States, particularly in the realm of political parties and their affiliates. While this argument does sound outlandish to many, if one were to grow up in one of the more liberal parts of the United States that does not follow Fox News religiously, they would see a clear pattern of news programming both on the liberal and conservative side that tends to favor United States politics rather than relevant international issues, domestic policies, ...

Introduction

This essay will explore the role that the American media plays in forming public opinion. This essay will particularly focus on the area of public opinion, media influence and politics. It will investigate whether, or not the media plays a key role in forming public opinion when it comes to politics. It will discover what the extent of their influence is. The research methodology in this essay has been taken from, statistical data, journals, academic presentations, books, newspaper articles, and video recordings. This topic has been chosen, because it is a current issue that is playing out in the ...

The 9/11 tragedy is one of the fiercest terrorist attacks on USA. We can call it a terrorist attack because it was planned and executed by the terrorists of Al Qaeda (CBC News, 2004). Most would not deny that 9/11 was a typical act of terrorism; some believe that it was a war in the name of religion. A group of Islamist terrorists hijacked air planes and crashed those into the twin towers of World Trade Centre and the building of Pentagon in US, killing more than 3000 people (Inside 9/11, 2005). Noam Chomsky, the renowned intellectual supports the definition of terrorism ...