Control On Owning Lead Gun control laws have been in a high debate in the U.S for some time. Who can own them, is the government suppose to regulate them, should the government ban them, are all current debates that U.S politics debate over all the time. However, gun control is becoming more of a concern to the public, because of recent high crime rates involving guns. Politics have come into play on how the U.S is to impose gun control laws, either to make gun control laws more strict or less strict. We hear and sometimes learn about Gun Control commentary most of the time from politics through the radio, tv, magazines, and newspapers. Through these there is companies that publish these stories to the public, and have the intention of
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However, there is a problem with finding news about gun control, and that problem is bias. All sources of news use bias. Why? Because, politics effects people 's opinions, which therefore effect owners ' of large medias news and end up with a bias report. Also, journalists, like all humans, have their own opinions on politics, and sometimes their opinions end up in news reports. Because, of this citizens of the U.S often get the news report on only of two views which is a liberals ' point of view and a conservatives point of view. We will learn more about bias by reviewing two news reports which are " Washington State Gun Control: Boters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" by Sabrina Siddiqui, Huffington Post, (liberals), and "Hidden Consequences Of Washington State 's Gun Background Check Initiative 594" by Dr. John R., Fox News (conservatives) who both are on gun control and on Initiative 594, and both show either share or have different types of media bias specifically bias by placement, bias by labeling, bias by omission, bias by selection of …show more content…
John R. with bias by placement. "Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks", Siddiqui shows bias by placement by the news report not quoting the conservative viewpoint and quoting the liberal point of view of law 594 at the moment Sabrina Siddiqui, author of Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" mentions two groups which are Americans for Responsible Solutions and The National Rifle Association, a conservative group. At the middle of the news article Sabrina Siddiqui first mentions "The National Rifle Association spent approximately $450,000 trying to defeat I-594" by "Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks". Then without quoting or summarizing anything about the NSA, mentions and quotes sources of the Americans for Responsible Solutions, a liberal group against guns, whom the author says "also made its presence felt with a $500,000 expenditure on voter persuasion mail." Thus, "Washington State Gun Control: Boters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" Siddiqui points out a conservative view and then overcomes it by bringing up a liberal pint of view. By
However, there is a problem with finding news about gun control, and that problem is bias. All sources of news use bias. Why? Because, politics effects people 's opinions, which therefore effect owners ' of large medias news and end up with a bias report. Also, journalists, like all humans, have their own opinions on politics, and sometimes their opinions end up in news reports. Because, of this citizens of the U.S often get the news report on only of two views which is a liberals ' point of view and a conservatives point of view. We will learn more about bias by reviewing two news reports which are " Washington State Gun Control: Boters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" by Sabrina Siddiqui, Huffington Post, (liberals), and "Hidden Consequences Of Washington State 's Gun Background Check Initiative 594" by Dr. John R., Fox News (conservatives) who both are on gun control and on Initiative 594, and both show either share or have different types of media bias specifically bias by placement, bias by labeling, bias by omission, bias by selection of …show more content…
John R. with bias by placement. "Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks", Siddiqui shows bias by placement by the news report not quoting the conservative viewpoint and quoting the liberal point of view of law 594 at the moment Sabrina Siddiqui, author of Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" mentions two groups which are Americans for Responsible Solutions and The National Rifle Association, a conservative group. At the middle of the news article Sabrina Siddiqui first mentions "The National Rifle Association spent approximately $450,000 trying to defeat I-594" by "Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks". Then without quoting or summarizing anything about the NSA, mentions and quotes sources of the Americans for Responsible Solutions, a liberal group against guns, whom the author says "also made its presence felt with a $500,000 expenditure on voter persuasion mail." Thus, "Washington State Gun Control: Boters Approve Ballot On Initiative To Expand Background Checks" Siddiqui points out a conservative view and then overcomes it by bringing up a liberal pint of view. By