Essays on Media Bias

Media plays an important role in the passing of information to the citizens. Almost the whole population in one way or the other rely on television or read a newspaper for information. Based on what the targeted audience read, it shapes their opinion on various...

News media brings to the public what happens in the world. Especially when audiences lack direct experience or knowledge of the occurring events, they tend to rely particularly on the media for obtaining information. This might not mean that media tell us what to think...

Abstract Current media environment of Canada is heavily based on political topics, which is the main source for political parties to share their activities, opinions, and propaganda to their citizens. Nowadays topic of debate in media culture is the biased news coverage of political information....

The United States has the most developed, thriving and advanced mass media in the world. Throughout the year, we learned about the different amendments in our Constitution. And as we all know, it is the most important document in our country because of its protection....

Crime offense happens every day in the world, there’s a right way to lessening the quantity of crime that is done and a wrongfulness way. Many citizens say that guns are a big part of crime and argue against them. During this media fallout many...

As I walk down the street and spot a police officer, I suddenly try to act as normal as possible and get nervous, fearing the officer will stop me just for being suspicious. Many of my fears of the police stem from their portrayal by...

American media is probably one of the most influential means of determining public opinion. This can be said for a variety of different topics, from entertainment to politics. This last presidential election was no exception. The race to presidency between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton...

The media is a tool that usually passes information to people. The information should not forward the agenda and preferences of the individuals at a media outlet, but it should present the real and unbiased situation. The distribution and presentation manner of a vital issue...

Individuals depend on writer to report verifiable news and to make political focuses in helping the American native in settling on their choice when it comes time to cast a ballot. Since American’s don’t have room schedule-wise to investigate each side to every one of...

Muslims have occupied a central role in British media following the war on terror, as well as featuring in issues and debates about radicalization, immigration, and oppression of women. This representation has been largely negative throughout the 21st century, alongside the rise of Islamophobia. It...

Although media freedom is regarded as the foundation of modern democracy, it is shown that media control is crucial to the autocratic system for the significant social influence of propaganda and regime support. China, as the largest autocracy and newspaper market, is regarded as one...

While there isn’t much in North Korean media, the media that is existent is mostly false statements about the US and false pictures of nuclear destruction of United States cities by North Korean Nukes. North Korean news anchors say things like an upcoming conflict will...

Baroness Patricia Scotland, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) that Mail Online articles concerning the renovation of her apartment contained inaccuracies. IPSO was right to find that the publication did not breach Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’...

The news platform has evolved over the ages starting from the printing press which came into existence in around 1440s till date. Now we are living in the new era where we have internet which connects people from all around the world regardless of the...

Online falsehoods have been spreading rapidly in Singapore’s media ever since the creation of internet. It is a negative voice, thought, comment or an attack that someone opinionate to a person or an organization. It is demonstrated falsely which can cause a significant impact such...

Introduction The United Kingdom has been through a lot of difficulties and transformation in the past decade with terrorist attacks taking place in Manchester and London, to the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the consequences and challenges that face the country when...

Bias is something that pervades the content of almost every single media outlet even if at first it is not apparent. The modality of bias can range from outright lies, to a more moderate withholding of information about a topic, to the subtle use of...

Is there a liberal media bias, and actually how big could this phenomenon be? You can tune into such programs like, “Rush Limbaugh” and, “The Colbert Report”, shows that clearly show a political bias, but are these biases’ hidden in everyday programs that we the...