Confirmation bias

really have on society and it’s people? The media and reporters are always faced with this question. People often have different views on this subject. There is no denying that this subject normally has an effect on certain citizens. The media can show bias at times, leading to people 's views on media to change, and therefore having a positive or negative impacts on their lives.…

It is safe to say we all have a common negative response to a topic discussing totalitarianism, due to us living and waking up every day in a country with a democratic structure. Each and every human being living in the U.S.A. and is recognized as a U.S. citizen acquire human rights and the power to say and be whatever you want. Comparing these benefits we have to the Orwell's society in 1984, the public is shown as inhumane, almost treated like dirt or perhaps worse, by the government and Party…

Fox News is one of the most controversial American television stations mainly because of one word, bias. They have been accused on several occasions of favoring the political right and misrepresenting facts/arguments. However, it seems to have gotten to the point where people just assume Fox News is overly biased based on what others say. There are a lot of people who have never even seen a decent amount of Fox News just because they assume that it’s garbage. I was one of those people until…

Photographs have become a powerful tool to spread the news that the everyday person cannot see at first hand, yet pictures can lie. Images have a role to portray the raw truth. Yet, when an image is retouched it no longer tells the original story; it tells the story with more extravagant details that were not there in the first place. Thus making it a false reality the photographer wants the observer to see. Pictures are meant to be used to give context to certain aspects words cannot fully…

The authors used a funnel plot, (which is a statistical way to identify publication bias) and concluded that no meta-analysis presented serious publication bias according to the GRADE approach. Egger and Smith (1998) highlight that studies with significant results have a higher tendency to be published or cited, another danger of publication bias is the inclusion of studies only in the English language, however in Machado et al (2015) there were no restrictions on…

Muckraking for me means when a person seeks deeper information to degrade or underhand someone for publication. There are three specific types of muckraking which are; simple muckraking, leaping impact muckraking, and truncated muckraking. We often see this particular term in plenty of articles online, especially in national news. Examples of muckraking tend to arise information that people did not know, information that comes to light. Graber & Dunaway (2015) state in the text, “These examples…

Recently I watched the FX’s ‘The People v. O.J Simpson’, a set of documentary features detailing ‘the trial of the century’. It was whilst watching this series that the lead defense attorney grabbed my full attention. Robert Shapiro, speaking on the most high profile criminal case in history states, “I’m not worried about the truth, I’m worried about perception”. In a case built on conspiracy and aversion, truth became irrelevant in the eyes of those dictating history. Perception of the events,…

Media bias is the bias in journalism and news production for the mass media inside selections of cases and stories and how they are addressed. Media bias can be found anywhere in the media related to very controversial topics such as, abortion, gun control, and majorly in politics. This is nothing new but what is new the shameless ways of blurring/nudging the truth in line with marketing. The blurring of truth hinders the average consumers mind and blurs all the facts and different perspectives…

The Media Has Ebola!!! (On the Mind) Since the first case of Ebola in America, there has been an explosion of media coverage of this disease, ranging from infections and healthcare warnings to rumored cases. Almost all of the media coverage has been warnings, and alleged cases of Ebola in addition to how dangerous it is. The U.S. Media is escalated the Ebola virus beyond its immediate danger, and intensified the feeling of panic in the population. There is no reason for this level of dread among…

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…