Patrick Bond comments in his article (1989): "The average taxpayer, curious to know how and why an estimated $1,000 per household will be handed to the Savings and loan industry, won't get much help from the news media…coverage of the S&L crisis has offered little analysis of how the multi-billion dollar boondoggle relates to broader economic questions…" Bond backs up his assertions with the following facts: When Ralph Nader put forward an alternate proposal to have the S&L bailout be funded by the rich who actually made money from risky S&L activities, Nader got no mention on the three nightly network news shows, and no coverage in the Washington Post or New York Times. When Jesse Jackson joined more than 100 organizations to launch an all-out attack on the S&L bailout, the Times and Post carried wire stories (3/3/89) with only six paragraphs of coverage (Bond, 1989)
It's not a question of false reporting. It's a question of not reporting" (Johnson, date, p
It's not a question of false reporting. It's a question of not reporting" (Johnson, date, p
It's not a question of false reporting. It's a question of not reporting" (Johnson, date, p
Pro-Corporate Media Bias Pro-Corporate Bias in the Media "I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works" (Moyers, 2004)
This practice may often mean purposefully seeking out biased sources to present one side's view and the other side's view. (Buddenbaum, J
" It is simply intellectually dishonest for journalists in particular not to concede a relationship between the media's almost obsessive focus on the perceived pathologies of black life and the creation of some very mean-spirited public policy, based largely on distortions of the African-American reality. (Coleman W
"The media is doing the American public a disservice by only showing one side of the story," said Julie Neils, spokeswoman for Focus on the Family. (Eubanks, D
this ratio exactly matches that of females with eating disorders. (Harrison, 1997) However, it should also be made clear that not all media elements are intentionally biased
But one is the perception of bias and the feeling that the press often violates its own professed standards of behavior." (Samuelson, R
, 2000) It is quite easy to find other reports from legitimate and respected sources that refute the contentions of bias in the above quotation. The following report is from the University Wire: "Israeli anthropologist Tania Forte and Palestinian-born Illinois State University history professor Issam Nassar spoke about biased media coverage on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East " (Quinones, A
The problem is that consumers are unaware of when, how, why, and by whom such political messages are being propagated. "The public do not know how much information the news organizations have and so do not know when news is being withheld," (Anderson and McLaren 831)
Chiang found that voters do rely on the media for information related to political campaigns, but that the relationship between media and campaign endorsement is a complicated one. Basically, when a news media endorses a candidate in the opposite political party than expected, that endorsement can be "more influential" than a more predictable endorsement (Chiang)
Perceptions of a liberal media bias are often false and outlandish and rooted in perceptual biases about the social composition of the United States (Gross, Shazili and Gelman). Research also shows that methods like natural language processing (NLP) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) can be used to reveal concordances between memes in digital content and their corresponding verbal or textual manifestations in the same brand's television or print outlet (Doumit and Minai)
Research on media bias reveals that the public does perceive bias, whether or not it is there, and that the perceptions of the public influence attitudes toward the media and its news-related content (Zimmerman). Perceptions of a liberal media bias are often false and outlandish and rooted in perceptual biases about the social composition of the United States (Gross, Shazili and Gelman)
What digital media allows is for potentially unbridled access to a diversity of media sources, including sources in other languages and from other countries. This is especially true when the "explosion of social media" is considered (Mitchell 1)
News media has been steadily shifting from a model based on unilateral delivery of heavily editorialized print and television resources toward a model that is more multilateral in nature as it relies on the interactive nature of the Internet. Research on media bias reveals that the public does perceive bias, whether or not it is there, and that the perceptions of the public influence attitudes toward the media and its news-related content (Zimmerman)