Senate Bill 6 Analysis

A law where some men are forced to use the woman’s restroom, and some women are forced to use the men’s restroom. A second law to further help in preventing men from raping women in the women’s restroom. These are not two separate laws, but the two differing opinions on Senate Bill 6. One would expect media outlets to choose the two sides equally, but in fact, these media outlets tend to be neutral towards, or against, Senate Bill 6; the reason being that media outlets are companies, and as companies, want to protect their brand. The most telling fact on the issue is that one of the most conservative news site, Breitbart, has only a very slight slant in favor of the bill. Analyzing how this and other news sites keep their profits up is …show more content…
The tone of a publication on a topic is paramount to one tactic that many publications use to keep their profits up. The tone is also dependent on the readers of a publication. Many people reading these news sites, regardless of political association, are against Senate Bill 6. The people that these publications consider when deciding the tone of an article covering this topic are the LGBT community and those who are tolerant or supportive of the LGBT community. Only a very small minority of readers are supportive of the bill, while many are against it for various reasons. The way that a publication talks about a topic can change whether people continue or refuse to read the publication. If the publication puts a positive slant on the bill, it would have mainly detrimental effects. It would ostracize, and therefore lose profits from, the LGBT community and those who are supportive or tolerant of the LGBT community. If the backlash got to a certain point, it would be somewhat likely that other publications …show more content…
This means that they only had a slight slant towards their generally conservative views. This is very unusual when one remembers that Breitbart is owned by a white supremacist, and is generally tailored towards the alt-right. To those who already read Breitbart, this is generally what they expect, as the article is still biased towards their views. The opposing side also had little to complain over, as the article was much closer to their views than the average Breitbart article. In this instance, Breitbart took the best path they could. With such a charged topic, showing their usual bias would have caused a large amount of backlash, although that may not have been as large a problem for it as it would be for a local