Egocentric bias

about different opinions regarding cable news, I found myself becoming more curious about bias in the media, especially within CNN and Fox News, the two most popular cable news channels. What I wanted to know is: how biased are CNN and Fox News? Most people are aware that CNN tends to lean more liberal and Fox News leans more conservative. However, through my research, I learned that the perception of bias in the media is based on relativity. Furthermore, I found that it is best to use a variety…

Bias reporting in the main stream media has grown into a National phenomenon, especially after the most recent election cycle. There is no middle ground and there are never two sides to any story. The term “fake news” is voiced over and over again by politicians and I can’t help but to agree. Before you dismiss my essay in the assumptions that I am out on a mission to “Make America Great Again”, I believe all parties are equally guilty. Reporting now will have you believe you are either left or…

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…

Bias, an inevitable form of one-sided, broadcasted information, has taken over the media for the worst and provides a chance of manipulation from a strong view in the media. Those presenting establish a way of language that is putting an opinion across that will construct a viewpoint either opposing or supporting the event in place of revealing both sides of a story. Being bias means that the individual voicing one’s opinion is the only right opinion and especially not caring for any other…

Media bias is generally described as the prejudice shown through different media outlets, such as newspapers, news channels, and even radio shows. While some people do not see harm in miniscule opinions, the general public does not reflect on the power these news reporters contain. With a single misused adjective, these journalists have the ability to shape and contort opinion’s society holds of certain situation or person. During an experiment produced by the Pew Research Center, it was…

In observation of environment consistently overrun with striking and embellished news stories, consumers of political media constantly search for the quickest form of information to maintain a general understanding of a situation. In viewing these usually biased, meager reports of events, consumers are quick to establish their opinions from off the way information is presented to them. After their opinions are presented to them through various forms of media, the general public lacks an urge to…

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…

Graduate Student Extra Paper: Cognitive Dissonance Theory Cognitive dissonance is a state that a person may enter when their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are not aligned with each other. This inconsistency causes dissonance, which is unwanted, so a person can be motivated to remove if the dissonance becomes too strong. To feel this dissonance, a person will need to feel responsible for their actions and the consequences of their actions. These consequences need to be aversive, irrevocable,…

people make are tainted with errors and swayed in large part by a huge range of biases. In their book “Judgment under Uncertainty”, psychologists Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky published their findings on cognitive bias in which they define cognitive bias as the disposition that people have of making decisions or taking actions in an illogical manner. Some biases may relate to memory and some biases may have to do more with attention. For example, the way an individual remembers a…

The political parties have been part of the United States government for as long as anyone can remember, but the question is: should they be? There are multiple perspectives on this, one being that political parties benefit the system, another being that political parties are the problem. As a country, it’s not often considered that we could be doing something wrong --especially in government -- but it’s time to open our minds and consider it. Long before many can actually remember, George…