Media Bias

In observation of environment consistently overrun with striking and embellished news stories, consumers of political media constantly search for the quickest form of information to maintain a general understanding of a situation. In viewing these usually biased, meager reports of events, consumers are quick to establish their opinions from off the way information is presented to them. After their opinions are presented to them through various forms of media, the general public lacks an urge to find unbiased perspectives. In 2015, a time full of international crises, political frustration, and national events, dominating news networks take advantage of these situations by providing brief, biased reports. Information being poorly portrayed to …show more content…
Opinions being absorbed creates the standard that people no longer need to put thought into the creation of beliefs among those who consume media through large news networks. Guy DeBord, in “The Society of the Spectacle,” elaborates on this claim regarding personal opinion, stating that “this thought is entirely determined by the fact that it cannot and does not wish to apprehend its own material foundation in the spectacular system” (Debord 194). In terms of information, when a consumer is confronted with biased opinions from a persuasive news source, there is no incentive for them to either confirm or deny the information as useful; it is simply fact. For example, after the Democratic Debate of 2016 between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Democratic-Socialist Bernie Sanders, if Fox News created a report bashing Clinton’s statements, a consumer who did not view the debate is left to the biased argument presented to them. Through this practice, it is clear that media corporations act as a main agent of persuasion of opinion formation for their own profit and support of their associated agendas. With these results happening constantly after every political event, opinions remain complacent while politicians and corporations progress financially, which logically infers that they believe political polarization poses no threat to American …show more content…
An example of a new form of alienation being used in the two-party system, in which one person feels confined to one political group due to a single belief is same sex marriage. This statement explains the spectacle that reigns true in polar-opposite parties that the individuality involved in lifestyle choice, opinion creation, and the curiosity of validity is being disintegrated with sorting tactics enforced by political agendas. Applying this process of deterioration with the current trend of political affiliations, consumers do not even recognize the cause of their polarized beliefs, which infers that the supporters of the two-party system do not believe polarization is harmful to America’s political efficacy due to the phenomena explained by Debord and