Egocentric bias

Contextual bias occurs when the investigators uses irrelevant facts to prove the guilt of a suspect, while confirmation bias occurs when they specifically look for facts that prove a previous assumption. Avoidance of cognitive dissonance occurs when the investigators refuse to accept new information that can disprove their theories. Like the arson study, other investigators conducted studies about how much these forms of bias can influence evidence interpretations. For…

media in the United States creates a blanket of fear over the population of the country and often induces mass panic across the nation. Media bias occurs when a form of media outlet begins to distort the truth and facts based on the collective beliefs, political advantages, or financial advantages distorting the truth it will bring. This could be a…

impact on our current presidential race. This is due to the fact that the mainstream media contains a great deal of bias. With this subjective reporting, it plays a large role in shaping the minds and decisions of the American voter. I believe that bias is inevitable in today’s media; every network or reporter has a subjective motive to further a political point. The majority of this bias from networks tends to lean left and favor liberal viewpoints. According to research done by journalism…

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…

Over the years, news articles have released articles about chocolate. The article, “Why A Journalist Scammed The Media Into Spreading Bad Chocolate Science," shed the light of the current media trend. Just by searching up chocolate, reports come in about how you can lose weight just by eating chocolate. It is true that dark chocolate is better for us, but articles all over media are lying to consumers. When news came out, the media went crazy falling under the giant hoax. Bohannan a journalist…

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…

On September 25,2013,the Huffington post published “Foreign News at a Crisis point”, an article by Peter Goodman, executive business and global editor at the Huffington Post. He claims that some journalists are reporting foreign news and not informing the audience of the real facts. He specifically argues that we need professional journalists and need to find new ways to report foreign news that will properly inform the audience. To strengthen his argument, Goodman uses three rhetorical…

Bailey Gillen Robert Whitley History 132-620 12 June, 2017 Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for truth…

This graph shows an increase of polarization between the republicans and the democrats. In both parties, members are adopting more extremist ideas. Democrats are identifying more as being consistently liberal and republicans are identifying more as being consistently conservative. This leaves little room for moderate republicans and democrats and also leaves little room for compromise. This graph shows how people from the Democratic and Republican parties receive most of their information from…

Stop the Media Bias, Give the People What They Need to Hear “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses” Quoted by Malcolm X. The media is very powerful and influential in today’s society. It helps influence the public’s opinions during Presidential elections and sways people’s views more to the left or to the right of the spectrum. In today’s…