Media bias in the United States

America America and proved the founding fathers were right all along Larry Schweikart is the author of 48 Liberal Lies About American History, What Would the Founders Say?, and co wrote of the New York Times bestseller A Patriots History of the United States. He has written many articles and academic books on national defense, financial history,and business. He has spoken numerous times on fox news and is a history professor at Dayton University. Throughout the book Dr. Schweikart provides…

The World Wide Media Bias Crisis All pieces of information, unless hard fact, are biased. This may not always be intentional, as each individual has had different experiences than those around them. Even though it is unrealistic for the media to be completely objective in every issue they cover, media bias is real and prevalent, and is dividing the people of the world. Social media, although it spreads information quickly, has greatly decreased the accuracy of information. The entire developed…

God's Sake: The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy is an examination piece by Lee Marsden on how religious fundamentalism acts as a force in domestic and foreign affairs of the strong western power - United States . The investigation centered around Christian Right that motors the United States Foreign Policy. The book describes on how the reemergence of Christian Right during the twentieth Century and provides past evidence and the presidential stances during that era. As an example, the…

explanation is the authors claim, which reads “ The amorphous nature of climate change creates the ideal conditions for human denial and cognitive bias to come to the fore”. The article then begins by introducing the reader to four people and their perception on climate change –Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his research on psychological bias, believes that there’s no hope for climate change. Nicholas Stern, the author of Stern Review, a book dedicated to the…

Biases in Media The news media is being purposely biased, perpetuating the unfavorable political atmosphere that exists in the United States as a whole. It goes without saying that the year has been filled with more than its fair share of controversy. The news media tirelessly perpetuates the drama that currently exists on the United States political platform. I would assume most people would wondering, why I make such claims, to say that the year has been filled with so much controversy, among…

justice system have been apparent in recent news and social media coverage. These concerns, which affect a large portion of African Americans and Hispanics, have become one of the leading causes for the incarceration rate for both races. At a combined rate, African Americans and Hispanics make up 58% of all prisoners within the United States, but combined they only make up ¼ of the United States population (NAACP, n.d.). Negative bias within the criminal justice system is apparent in policing…

The United States currently has one of the largest prison populations in the world. According to statistics provided by the Bureau of Statistics 1 out of every 108 adults are were incarcerated in some form of facility at the end of 2012 (Glaze, 2013). Despite having one of the largest prison populations in the world, the United States is still suffering from high levels of criminal activity. The ways, in which this country is currently dealing with crime, do not appear to be all that helpful and…

Steve Macias Prof. Grundmeier English 1A 13 April 2015 The One Dimensional Arab Do Arab countries produce doctors, scientists, athletes, or actors? Scanning through western media reports, we might be tempted to think such occupations simply do not exist in Arabic speaking countries. Instead the phrase, “Arab” conjures images of missiles, turbans, and automatic rifles. Or perhaps we think of men laying prostrate facing Mecca or women dressed in Hijab as they veil their body in their cultural…

Module 5: Anti-Vaccine Movement The media is chocked full of different theories and ideas in regards to the anti-vaccine movement. While anti-vaccine movement has been in place since before 1885 (History of the anti-vaccine, 2014), there has been numerous scientifically backed research that prove that vaccinations work. To bolster the claim that vaccines are harmful, the movement uses the media to sway the general public. The bias of the media is apparent when a reader critically reads these…

Moderate news outlets are more likely to not discuss scripture, and if they do, it is usually referring to how a certain terrorist interpreted the scripture for themselves. However, verses from the Bible or other holy books are not mentioned in the media as much as Islamic scripture when justifying terrorism. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, found that violence is prevalent and justified many times throughout Abrahamic religious texts. He theorized…