Any time there is an accident in America, the media will cover it. If there is a shooting or act of police brutality, the media will form some type of particular bias. When the police are involved in brutality, the media will come up with an individual who will side with the police and go against the citizens. Fox News’ broadcast indicates a conservative prospective, based off the particular bias. There is a clear bias about the abuse of police brutality that shows bias by the selection of sources, bias by spin, bias by commission, and bias by labeling. Fox & Friends is conservatively biased in covering the protests involving police brutality. Fox & Friends introduces Sheriff David Clarke to comment, which demonstrates bias by the selection
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That’s just a person’s point of view. It is known that it is still going on all over the world and many victims are being killed by excessive police force. “Black people use force against each other in American ghettos and this is not true about police”(Ghetto Civil War). The Sheriff labels the protestors as being black, identifying them, and further negating the issue at hand; he is using the bias of labeling. He believes that placing the crowd under the same light that black people are under would invalidate the issues they are fighting for, especially when he demeans them by saying they are from the ghetto. The sheriff aims to use the social and political stigmas that entail being black or coming from the ghetto against the protestors. The black lives matter is a national organization working to reinforce the validity of Black lives and call out injustice, while reflecting on the strength of the black community. The Sheriffs bias is projected when he attacks the Black Lives Matter movement. When he brings them up in the interview unprovoked it is clear that he is attempting to slander the organization by implying that they have something to do with the protest at hand. Here he also uses the bias of labeling by attempting to paint these protestors as members of the Black Lives …show more content…
They believe that black on black violence should be the largest concern, of the protestors he is referring to in the interview, instead of police killing citizens. Hannity makes jokes about what the president said, attempting to make the president look bad regarding his take on race as it pertains to police brutality. The Sheriff’s remarks of the president are considered a straw man fallacy as the sheriff attempts to negate the wrong doings of the cops to the president through his critique of
That’s just a person’s point of view. It is known that it is still going on all over the world and many victims are being killed by excessive police force. “Black people use force against each other in American ghettos and this is not true about police”(Ghetto Civil War). The Sheriff labels the protestors as being black, identifying them, and further negating the issue at hand; he is using the bias of labeling. He believes that placing the crowd under the same light that black people are under would invalidate the issues they are fighting for, especially when he demeans them by saying they are from the ghetto. The sheriff aims to use the social and political stigmas that entail being black or coming from the ghetto against the protestors. The black lives matter is a national organization working to reinforce the validity of Black lives and call out injustice, while reflecting on the strength of the black community. The Sheriffs bias is projected when he attacks the Black Lives Matter movement. When he brings them up in the interview unprovoked it is clear that he is attempting to slander the organization by implying that they have something to do with the protest at hand. Here he also uses the bias of labeling by attempting to paint these protestors as members of the Black Lives …show more content…
They believe that black on black violence should be the largest concern, of the protestors he is referring to in the interview, instead of police killing citizens. Hannity makes jokes about what the president said, attempting to make the president look bad regarding his take on race as it pertains to police brutality. The Sheriff’s remarks of the president are considered a straw man fallacy as the sheriff attempts to negate the wrong doings of the cops to the president through his critique of