Media bias in the United States

In Eritrea, only state news media are authorized to operate. They do so under the complete direction of an information minister: Journalists are conscripted into their work and enjoy no editorial freedom and are handed specific instructions on how to cover events. Moreover, journalists suspected of sending information outside the country are thrown into prison without charge or trial and are held for extended periods of time without access to a family or a lawyer. Countries such as Eritrea,…

Racial Bias It would be hard to say that people are born into their prejudice, but rather form their prejudice towards other races from a young age due to influences from their peer groups or parental values and even societal values. Jane Elliott’s classic ‘Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed’ experiment has challenged people 's formed racial biases (Elliott, Golenbock and Talmadge, 2008). This will be discussed in more detail below. In order to understand racial bias one must understand what racism is. It…

In 1968, the last recorded lynching in the United States occurred. Forty-eight years later, African Americans continue to face the threat of extrajudicial fatalities at the hands of those that have vowed to protect them. In the United States, the conversation over racially biased police has grown tremendously in the last six years. In a Wall Street Journal poll, 96 percent of respondents expected racial unrest over the summer of 2015 (Hook). The deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray sparked…

backtracked and a problem the united states mostly had solved has reemerged and been brought back up. Most of the police who are responsible for the deaths of unarmed black men are not racist and some are minorities themselves. The public must ask itself “why do these unnecessary deaths of innocent lives occur and why are they occurring. The question can simply be answered with implicit bias a term which has sparked in mainstream media. Implicit bias is the opposite of explicit bias which is a…

Though the United States is the best country on Earth, there are many different issues that we face on a daily basis. Some are uncontrollable, such as natural disasters, others are small, such as American’s obsession with technology, while other issues are huge. Many people will provide many different issues that America faces. The top five issues are education, wealth, obesity, media, and security. These are issues that continue to worsen every day and often fly under the radar, though they are…

Credibility People’s opinions on a topic often skew the actual facts and details of the problem. People’s biased views and opinions are usually thwarted into our media and articles today, causing a perpetuation of misinformation amongst the readers. Abortion is a very controversial topic today and many media sources reveal bias of some form. Through different viewpoints on abortion(like religiously, socially, and scientifically) we see the background and reasoning behind each of their choices.…

expensive price tag as well. Out of all of the funding dedicated to these diverse government programming majority of the money spent for criminal justice is linked to the state and local mandates. However, when analyzing the federal public funding fees can be connected to spending revenue for criminal justice in the United States impacts our country policies of our government’s procedures. The percentage of the total budget spent on criminal justice was in the billions of dollars. Therefore…

portrayal of current events in the media wields a formidable power over the opinions of its viewers. By watching or reading the news, the recipients are formulating their own judgements on the content based off of the supposedly objective information given. However, if the media chose to broadcast false or biased news, it could affect the mindsets of the entire nation and rally support for a private agenda while misusing freedom of the press to spread lies. The media also has the power to choose…

Challenging Racial Bias It would be hard to say that people are born into their prejudice, but rather, form their prejudice towards other races from a young age due to influences from their peer groups or parental values and even societal values. In order to understand racial bias one must understand what racism is. It will be discussed with regards to what racism is, then it will be outlined what the major factors of racial bias are. Furthermore, the role of ingroups and outgroups and finally…

The Republican and Democratic parties in the United States naturally have a number of differences, and as time has gone by the parties seem to be getting further and further away from being able to reach a common ground. Party polarization is defined as the vast and growing gap between liberals and conservatives. (Pew Research Center) There are many reasons as to why the public specifically are having trouble agreeing, such as the media’s different portrayals of same events, the social media’s…