The World Wide Media Bias Crisis All pieces of information, unless hard fact, are biased. This may not always be intentional, as each individual has had different experiences than those around them. Even though it is unrealistic for the media to be completely objective in every issue they cover, media bias is real and prevalent, and is dividing the people of the world. Social media, although it spreads information quickly, has greatly decreased the accuracy of information. The entire developed world now revolves around these social media sites, that in their most basic form, are a rapidly paced, world wide game of telephone. Even for those media outlets who are intentionally biased or inaccurate feel as though they have no choice. That is
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All the denim stores sell jeans, but the sizes are inconsistent, and as of recent the sizes are shrinking and shrinking. In the media, statistics are constantly being inflated, deflated, or conflated. No two presentations on the same issue are alike. For example, “the report spread by the media that there had been 355 mass shootings in 2015 was inflated and misleading”, and the federal government’s criteria for mass shootings is not in line with other media outlets, whose argument is that mass shootings occur “once-a-day” (Follman). According to Follman, these inflations and conflations of information have heightened the sense of dread in the US. In order to counteract this, different shooting cases must be issued different responses (Follman). Every case is different in all aspects. The location, weapon, perpetrator, and victim are never the same, but the media continues on like a broken record, spitting out the same information over and over again. “While all the victims are important, conflating those many other crimes with indiscriminate slaughter in public venues obscures our understanding of this complicated and growing problem”, the problem being the misunderstanding of the public (Follman). There is not a solid or universal definition for what a mass shooting is, which means accurately identifying a mass shooting is impossible. This is where issues like gun control take root and divide the people, who do not even know the full extent of what they are fighting for or against, broadening the ever growing gap between reality and the
All the denim stores sell jeans, but the sizes are inconsistent, and as of recent the sizes are shrinking and shrinking. In the media, statistics are constantly being inflated, deflated, or conflated. No two presentations on the same issue are alike. For example, “the report spread by the media that there had been 355 mass shootings in 2015 was inflated and misleading”, and the federal government’s criteria for mass shootings is not in line with other media outlets, whose argument is that mass shootings occur “once-a-day” (Follman). According to Follman, these inflations and conflations of information have heightened the sense of dread in the US. In order to counteract this, different shooting cases must be issued different responses (Follman). Every case is different in all aspects. The location, weapon, perpetrator, and victim are never the same, but the media continues on like a broken record, spitting out the same information over and over again. “While all the victims are important, conflating those many other crimes with indiscriminate slaughter in public venues obscures our understanding of this complicated and growing problem”, the problem being the misunderstanding of the public (Follman). There is not a solid or universal definition for what a mass shooting is, which means accurately identifying a mass shooting is impossible. This is where issues like gun control take root and divide the people, who do not even know the full extent of what they are fighting for or against, broadening the ever growing gap between reality and the