Bias

In today’s society, the idea of media bias seems to be something heedless. No matter what resource we look at, there’s bound to be bias. Whether it’s from the news like CNN, the internet, or if you’re pretty old school, the newspaper. Even the magazines we read in the bathroom contain bias. You can immediately tell if something is bias or not by just the source itself. For example, the idea of arming teachers today seems to be an idea that’s preposterous to some people but to others it’s an idea…

In Makarechi’s article “What the Data Really Says About Police and Racial Bias.” he states that although there is not a ton of competent data of fatal police shootings, there is still a wealth of academic research, official and media investigations, and court rulings on the specific topic of race and police officers. The Hive had collected 18 statistics of the such to reveal the evidence we do have. All together, the research gives an idea of a nation where a person’s race can affect the…

The results are shown in the form of biases (GMI-CRTM TBs) before (unadjusted) and after (adjusted) applying the RARMA algorithm. The bias histograms seem to appear more similar to a Gaussian distribution in the figure. Eventually, bias exists for all of the GMI channels. Comparatively, a small bias is seen on channel 12, which is in the water vapor absorption line (183.31±3 GHz). One can see that the peak of the distribution for all channels has come closer to zero…

Spanning from yellow journalism in the nineteen hundred to tabloids and Facebook articles in modern times, the public has been exposed to false news that invade every aspect of their lives. The internet facilitates the spread of current events by allowing information to be accessible at one’s fingertips. Nevertheless, much of the information discovered online through social media has been found to be biased and simply inaccurate and continues to be spread throughout the public’s social profiles.…

In the 2007 passage titled “The Liberal Media Exposed”, the author argues that there is a strong, growing liberal bias which dominates the media. Meanwhile, The Nation columnist and independent weblogger for MSNBC.com Eric Alterman contradicts this argument in the 2003 article “What Liberal Media?”, asserting that conservatives are extremely well represented in every facet of the media. Although Alterman uses a quotation which states that “the liberal press is much larger”, he argues that the…

all receive information and think about things differently. It’s not the news that presents the events differently, it is the individual and their understanding of the past and present that forms their opinion about the events presented. Therefore, bias in the news will always be there because we all view and interpret information our own way and the information presented or left out of the news stories can influence our opinions. When there is news on Television or in social media, we may not…

Judgement in Crisis Situation This Harvard Business School simulation focuses on the ability to make decisions under pressure. In this simulation, students played the role of a Product Manager at Matterhorn Health dealing with reported high inaccuracy rates in Matterhorn’s newest blood glucose monitor, the GlucoGauge. The GlucoGauge underwent three years in Research and Development and was the company’s most expensive product development to date. While the products performed well in field tests,…

It puts into place the cultural hegemony that is present throughout society. The European view of Syrians is simply one of terrorists as the country is located in the Middle East. O'Reily performs the bias of the station as he endlessly brings up ISIS each time he references Syria. As the station repeats the ‘biased information it inevitably becomes incorporated into “common knowledge”’ (Ramasubramanian 251). The more it is enforced the harder it is…

A. AG: It’s safe to assume that everyone in this classroom has looked at some form of news at some point in your life, according to an article written by the MintPress News, 60% of information reported by Fox News in 2015 was false. 1. Aaron Blake, a writer for the Washington Post, stated that people only watch reported news that agrees with their political beliefs. 2. Meaning that the majority of news audiences are subjectively one-sided and don’t get both sides of the story, only the…

by political agendas and powerful figures. Whether through story placement, omission, under-reporting, or another form of deceit, media very easily becomes biased. Media bias has increased in recent years, causing public disbelief of the media, ill-informed voters, and distrust of the government. Some might argue that bias has always been, by nature, a crucial part of American mass media and…