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on the television, read a newspaper, or scroll through social media, you are most likely going to witness the same thing – the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Especially since we are in the ‘Digital Age’ along with the 24 hour news cycle, there is always breaking news or new findings of information to be reported at any minute of the day. I believe the media has had a huge impact on our current presidential race. This is due to the fact that the mainstream media contains a great deal of bias.…

The article, Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers by Michael Schudson argues that journalism has changed due to changes in society. For instance, in the 1820’s newspapers consisted of only business and politics. The newspapers required subscriptions, only the wealthy could afford. “Objectivity” was not a journalist’s key focus, but rather to be factual. The ideal changed after World War 1. According to Schudson, “Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions……

News stories are biased because of how they are interpreted by people and what the media chooses to include or not include in their stories. This makes it biased. We 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…

justice within a controlled society. Unfortunately, those influences are a thing of the past. The most powerful influence in our society today, is the news media. News media have dominated the ability to Impact our daily lives and now has the power to influence judicial outcomes in the courtroom. This paper will examine the relationship between, the news media reporting on high profile criminal cases and the negative influence they have on society’s thoughts of justice in the courtroom. Innocent…

Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s was uncovered. It was exposed as the clandestine activity of those who wanted to dictate the opinions of the subscribers of news and general media. There are those who control the media, and want to sway public opinion. As early as Operation Mockingbird it was reported that reporters within large news organizations were paid to illegitimately influence domestic and foreign thinking. Now, with technology driving digital marketing even more deeply into…

close look at two hosts from diverging media outlets-Sean Hannity from Fox News and Rachel Maddow from MSNBC. I will compare and contrast how they present their views…

reelections of Roosevelt leading him to four consecutive Presidential Terms more than any other president till this day. Roosevelt also used his Fireside chat as opportunities to introduce new legislation and political moves within Washington. Roosevelt’s Relief and Recovery program is famous for being one of the chats where new legislation and economic plans where being broadcasted to the public. (“Business hangs on Fireside Talk”) The program and chat did not have its challenges as well. The…

Imagine you and family sitting at home, watching a calm New York Mets baseball game on TV. Suddenly you realize there is a massive wall of water near your neighborhood. Then, you turn and look then all you see is glass flying everywhere. Hurricane Andrew was the time in August 1992, when a tropical wave near Africa, moved to the Atlantic Ocean. Then, the winds reached hurricane levels. The state of Florida wasn’t prepared for Hurricane Andrew, the disaster created many problems and caused mass…

they are scared. Scared that everything they have been told by the media could have been a lie. They combat this fear with outright denial. In the article Mass Media, Paul Farhi says,“In fact, there's little to suggest that over the past few decades news reporting has become more favorable to one party”. Farhi is a media reporter for the Washington Post, a national newspaper that strongly emphasises American politics, and has been on the decline in recent years. This example of blunt denial…

BuzzFeed: Can We Consider it Professional Journalism? News practices and values have shifted dramatically since the rise of online media. Following this phenomenon, there is the quick development of what we now know as citizen journalism. This allows the general public to share news instantly without being a professional journalist. However, the term has created many debates in this field as it there is a fine line between being a professional and being a citizen. The added aspect of online…