Bias

3. Personal Bias Growing up in the Monterey County, I was always around passionate environmentalists who abided by a simple rule: keep the Earth clean. Being presented to this mindset at a young age sparked my interest and curiosity about the world and its environment. From then on I remembered turning off water and the lights when it was not necessary and unplugging plugs from their outlets when idle. From a young age, I have always agreed with the ideas of using clean energy sources and…

The story was purposefully censored in the US, however, in order to ease the audience’s exposure to the event and lessen the readers’ perception of the event’s magnitude and importance. This same exact censorship via selection bias, depiction bias and corporation control happens repeatedly for a myriad of topics and highly affects the process and politics of social change in America. Regardless of how modestly mass media controlled is published, it is clearly a much larger…

speaks. However, unbeknownst to the gun clerk the actual language is Persian. Regardless the judgement escalates and has the gun clerk assume the worse, that Farhad is a terrorist, causing him to kick him out the store. In this scene another attribution bias present is the fundamental attribution error. Fundamental attribution error is an emphasis on internal characteristics to explain an individual’s behavior instead of taking into consideration external factors. Farhad speaks his native…

The morning of November 9th, 2016, citizens of the United States awoke to learn that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States. Some cried, some cheered, as for me, I felt numb as I sat looking at my phone in disbelief. As I reflected on the past few months, many thoughts rattled around my head and disappeared, but one message remained. Donald Trump didn’t win the election because he knows politics and how to lead the most powerful nation on planet earth, he won the election…

CNN “crushed” the site with its coverage” (Ingram) There are numerous theories about media bias, but many times most are not based on founded proof. Although according to well-known researchers, there is, in fact, more to it than meets the eye. Watts and colleagues (1999) “suggested that this could be attributed in part to the fact that conservative elites have been making allegations of a liberal media bias since the 1988 election season and subsequently, “shaping” public perceptions of overall…

while one would not have known from the hyperbole, gun violence is not on the increase. Rather, it has been dramatically reduced over the last 30 years (National Review).” The diction used throughout the article and the excerpt point to significant bias regarding gun control and March for Our Lives; considering how the title is purposely inflammatory and contains a hasty generalization by claiming that gun violence is on the decrease while refusing to mention any studies that support the…

Hawaii and the ways Hawaii is preparing for it. This article definitely has some biased in it, since Fox News tends to have conservative ideologies, which tend to lead toward increased military spending and nationalism. One way the article is creating bias is my using Devil Terms such as “nuclear attack” and “missile capabilities”, which are words that cause people to feel fear and are associate with the most abhorrent things. There is also vivid language present that depicts the situation in a…

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

Bias in the Media Kyle Hill once said “We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.” The perpetuation of misinformation is a plague that will always be in society which will always leave todays public constantly questioning any and all source of information that is put out as bias or attempting to sway a reader…

They wrote an article, “Journalists have an even heavier task ahead” which chronicles their opinions on why the problem of fake news is not necessarily pertinent to a lack of understanding but instead because the liberal bias is perpetuated through most news outlets. As Will Jarvis explains during the article, “It’s less about word counts and more about how we tell these stories, how we share this information.”. Here the authors most likely meant to show that the way we…