In today’s society it seems as if the media is starting to take control of people’s ability to think for themselves. There have been multiple cases in which many news broadcasting stations have lied to their viewers in order to spread fear and confuse, when in reality nothing serious had happened. In today’s world there seems to be three reasons in which the media is causing harm in today’s growing society. One particular reason in which the media is causing harm is what many people like to call media bias, which is the practice of how many news journalist decide in which stories to cover and how they want to cover it. After knowing how media bias works, it leads to the second reason in which does the media report fairly and how the news lies
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In the mass media, media bias occurs when a media outlet reports a particular news story in partial or prejudiced way, meaning many news journalist select certain news stories and they decide to report on it on how they feel it should be covered. There are many forms of media bias with the most common forms of media bias being media criticism, bias by omission, bias by selection of sources, bias by story selection, bias by placement, and finally bias by labelling. All types of media bias have the same common goal, which is to give people false information and to manipulate people into acting or doing something that they have never done before. Many of the news outlets in the mass media look to report on a specific viewpoint rather than to cover a story more on fact oriented or more objectively. Furthermore, any source of news can be easily discovered in using the concept of media bias when a story being covered by any source of media decides to neglect an important aspect of the story being covered. There have been numerous counts on two of the biggest news stations in the United States, which are Fox news and CNN that have been discovered to use media bias by not covering other aspects of a story in order to confuse it’s viewers from learning the reality of what is being …show more content…
10). On a more important note Weller than states, “Social media is the thing that pollutes your brain” (par 14). Is society at a stage where you must post everything you do on social media (Weller, par. 12). Is social media taking away the values of ordinary life and are we just become brainless zombies? That is to say, how did society fall to social media and become so attached to it that we can’t live without it. Furthermore, is social media taking away the values that make us human and making us robots with no sense on how to think for ourselves and just follow the ideas and beliefs we see on social
In the mass media, media bias occurs when a media outlet reports a particular news story in partial or prejudiced way, meaning many news journalist select certain news stories and they decide to report on it on how they feel it should be covered. There are many forms of media bias with the most common forms of media bias being media criticism, bias by omission, bias by selection of sources, bias by story selection, bias by placement, and finally bias by labelling. All types of media bias have the same common goal, which is to give people false information and to manipulate people into acting or doing something that they have never done before. Many of the news outlets in the mass media look to report on a specific viewpoint rather than to cover a story more on fact oriented or more objectively. Furthermore, any source of news can be easily discovered in using the concept of media bias when a story being covered by any source of media decides to neglect an important aspect of the story being covered. There have been numerous counts on two of the biggest news stations in the United States, which are Fox news and CNN that have been discovered to use media bias by not covering other aspects of a story in order to confuse it’s viewers from learning the reality of what is being …show more content…
10). On a more important note Weller than states, “Social media is the thing that pollutes your brain” (par 14). Is society at a stage where you must post everything you do on social media (Weller, par. 12). Is social media taking away the values of ordinary life and are we just become brainless zombies? That is to say, how did society fall to social media and become so attached to it that we can’t live without it. Furthermore, is social media taking away the values that make us human and making us robots with no sense on how to think for ourselves and just follow the ideas and beliefs we see on social