John Stossel's Dealing With Mass Media Bias

Many view media as a source to receive reliable information. Over the years, technology has evolved and shaped society by manipulating an individual to believe a certain way, thus creating a one sided viewpoint. Mass media often uses different appeals to persuade its audience in order to keep ratings high. Various media sites portray their political beliefs as a strategy to convince people on what is acceptable in society. These sources often state information that the public wants to hear rather than stating facts and all sides to the story. Although people may use television as a source to receive current information the reality is that it is based on biased ideas. People need to realize that focusing on only one source of information leads individuals to not fully understand political issues in society. Since today's media contains bias, the public needs to be aware of its news sources …show more content…
Strossel goes on further to explain that even colleagues would not want to speak to him after coming out of the libertarian closet. After coming forward with his views, Stossel thought that he and his peers could have educated arguments and discussions about why others disagree. Furthermore, Bernie Goldberg being interviewed by Stossel mentions groupthink playing a huge role in the media bias. Goldberg continues on stating that groupthink is a way for people to come together with similar ideas on a news network. As a result of groupthink, news networks filter what truth it wants to portray and also dictates what information the viewer is allowed to receive. Bias in the media changes the truth into something that is twisted and only a portion of what is actually true is mentioned in the information. Media bias hides the truth and displays invalid information that stations believe is a way to manipulate an