The Freedom Riders is one example where the truth was either hidden or revealed through the news. Bias where strong in the south where people were segregated meaning that African Americans were usually passed off as troublemakers compared to others who saw the acts of segregation an act of cruelty. The trick to get pass bias is to interpreting the document to discover what is fact and what is fiction. It would deem best for one to gather multiple primary source documents such as first hand accounts. The civil rights movement known as the Freedom Riders was portrayed in both poor and elaborate ways in the news making it a prime case to be interpreted and to find the truth.
Bias are the opinion or viewpoint of an individual. It often shows …show more content…
Where one account is lacking in details another can fill where gives the reader/researcher more of a broader look on the event and what happened. An example of this is again the Jackson Daily giving a small biased summary of events through the view of white southern reporter in the sixties. If one solely based their thought on this article a different idea would have been painted in that one’s mind compared to if one studied more than document on the event such as fbi documents that give a detailed account on what happened. This document gives a who ,what ,where ,why ,and how on the events of May 15, 1961. These details give one the setting and a better understanding of the events that took place. Another important piece is to get the other side of the story. John Lewis, gives a snippet to CNN about how it felt to face the violence as a freedom rider “We were beaten in Birmingham and later met by an angry mob in Montgomery, where I was hit on the head with a wooden crate. It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left lying at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, unconscious.”(page 8)(❡29) This give readers a window to the other side which gives them the ability to somewhat understand what the person has gone …show more content…
Biases can cloud one's way of reporting an incident making it a dire need for people to view other works to be able to judge the topic, Freedom Riders. That people must ask themselves what the purpose of an article or account of a story is for. In the end one needs to keep an open and review all sources to grasp the main
Bias are the opinion or viewpoint of an individual. It often shows …show more content…
Where one account is lacking in details another can fill where gives the reader/researcher more of a broader look on the event and what happened. An example of this is again the Jackson Daily giving a small biased summary of events through the view of white southern reporter in the sixties. If one solely based their thought on this article a different idea would have been painted in that one’s mind compared to if one studied more than document on the event such as fbi documents that give a detailed account on what happened. This document gives a who ,what ,where ,why ,and how on the events of May 15, 1961. These details give one the setting and a better understanding of the events that took place. Another important piece is to get the other side of the story. John Lewis, gives a snippet to CNN about how it felt to face the violence as a freedom rider “We were beaten in Birmingham and later met by an angry mob in Montgomery, where I was hit on the head with a wooden crate. It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left lying at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, unconscious.”(page 8)(❡29) This give readers a window to the other side which gives them the ability to somewhat understand what the person has gone …show more content…
Biases can cloud one's way of reporting an incident making it a dire need for people to view other works to be able to judge the topic, Freedom Riders. That people must ask themselves what the purpose of an article or account of a story is for. In the end one needs to keep an open and review all sources to grasp the main