Cosmopolitan Bias

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I chose this article because I know that Cosmopolitan is a very biased news source. Their target audience is young college-aged women and since most people of that age demographic are extreme liberals, they try to cater to them to keep their audience, which they do a pretty good job at doing so considering the fact that Cosmopolitan is a very mainstream media outlet. Also, I always disliked Cosmopolitan as their bias is very prevalent, so I did some research myself and checked out some of their articles that don’t deal with Trump or Hillary. I found a surplus of articles on feminist and gender issues such as gender neutral underwear, the wage gap, body positivity, etc. Just by reading the title, I was confronted with so much bias that I knew

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