Media bias

like woman’s rights and racial equality. We want to think that everything is all fine and dandy when it comes to racism, but we still have a long way to go. According to the Color-Blind Privilege by Charles A. Gallagher, denying race as a structural bias for inequality, we fail to recognize the privilege of Whiteness. Being a white American has some connotation of putting on our “color blind glasses” on just to say that everything is okay. We want to think there is no racism left in the…

Throughout time certain stories have identified a number of ways in which certain news stories is manipulated by journalists to emphasise and alter meaning and perception. The majority of journalists today do frame their stories in ways that can mislead their audiences. However, often journalists employ frames without consciously knowing it. Therefore, it is important to note whether the way in which stories were produced had the effect of misleading audiences. A news item that illustrates how…

I decided to observe the social platform of “Snapchat” which is a mobile app that allows interaction through media such as pictures and videos which self destruct after a couple seconds. In this day and age, Snapchat has proven to be a revolutionary source of media in both positive and negative ways. The most dangerous form of interaction this platform enables is momentary keyboard confidence, which related greatly with many of the readings and subjects we discussed in class. This is the concept…

The editorial “Pimping Teenage Girls” by The Washington Times is an editorial used to show the audience that females are often hypersexualized in the media. The author used lots of connotation and bias to prove their point and show others that sexual exploitation of females on TV needs to stop. Rhetoric was used lightly in this editorial, the author not overly using it. A common form of rhetoric that was found was pathos, and this was one form that the author used a lot. For example in…

Kong citizens have organized themselves, mainly through social media, and are carrying out a powerful movement of protests, hoping that this conflict will be a source of development (Galtung, 2000: 10) for a…

may motivate them to looks in such way. Beauty obsession is influenced by mass media, professional requirement, and the need to impress others. (Refer in figure 1 in Appendix 1).…

relationship with the news media to which he often described as “fake news”. Public perception was a key component to the presidential election which included many headlines. President Trump has continued his attack on the media and its perceived “authenticity” which he continues to call into question. In today’s day and age media influence is at an all-time high in people’s daily lives. Typical media outlets in the form of radio broadcasting or television have become largely bias and play to…

explaining the experiment process, to better interpret the results. All of the experiments have their own conclusion, coming together to a general discussion on how each individual conclusion portrays a bigger discussion on perceived benevolence. With the media report, the information was more as a very brief and short summary on how the good intentions can manipulate our sense of pain, pleasure and taste. Instead of using descriptive language to better describe the details of the experiment,…

Social media has quickly become intertwined into our society’s daily routine. Gone are the days when we would have face to face discussions, about everything and anything, in turn creating lifelong friendships. This current generation is much more willing to hide behind the computer trying to create connections through the veil of the Internet, specifically social networking sites. With millions of people from all over the world, connecting with each other through social media, it is no wonder…

Has Media Gotten Any Better for Women? Thomas Paine is famously quoted as proclaiming that he will “offer nothing more than simple facts” in his famous work, Common Sense (Paine). I too have nothing other than facts and reason to give you about the sexist media and marketing humanity exposes itself to every day. Today’s media seemingly inundates itself with messages of feminism, from movie stars promoting t-shirts proclaiming their feminism to quotes about social equality on Pinterest boards.…