Media Bias
A liberal society is perceived to have no existence without news media that facilitates dissemination of right information to the individuals with a view to make them aware of the pronouncements. At the moment the news media fails to deliver the truth it have distorts the perception of individuals. The autocrats have always attempted to maneuver the public opinion by steering the press coverage to their advantages. Even Hitler relied upon the government owned press for publicizing his Nuremberg and Munich rallies. Lenin depended upon his newspaper ISKRA so as to popularize his Bolshevik revolution. He concentrated on discontents so as attain authority for himself. However, our media are not owned by government as was the case in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, we are required to presume that are not free. (Media Deception is more than Liberal Bias)
About seventy million Americans depend upon the television telecasting for getting the updated information. Their opinion is much influenced by the materials they visualize, they hear and to some extent what they study. It is not possible of the American citizens to cast well informed votes or formulate conversant decisions in case of public policies without appropriate and undistorted information, it is of utmost significance of the American democracy that the television news and other such available media are to be extremely fair and unprejudiced. (Media Bias Basics) The scholars are striving for the years to find out whether the media have an ideological bias. According to Goldberg, in the era of Jennings and Brokaws and Rathers, the conservatives have no place in the mainstream and are required to be searched out. This is considered to have been proved on the basis of available trend and capable of being examined in this line. (Issue: Liberal Media Bias) The underlying fact of liberal bias of the mainstream media has since long been regarded as the conservative perception. (Journalism Survey: A Report Examining the 'Liberal Media' Claim: Journalists' Views on Politics, Economic Policy and Media Coverage)
The concept of 'liberal media' is very common among the informal watcher of televisions and reader of news and commentary both in printed form or online. The concept spreads over the present political debate. The concept is so widely adapted in the American life with its recurrence that it is rarely queried. (Distortion, blindness and the 'liberal' media) The public personalities from Richard Nixon to Newt Gingrich, at different times have taken shelter on their claim of liberal media out to get them. A multitude of traditional sayings reveal pundits and media watch groups striking an ideology that the media demonstrates an inherently 'liberal' inclination. (Journalism Survey: A Report Examining the 'Liberal Media' Claim: Journalists' Views on Politics, Economic Policy and Media Coverage) The traditionalists have since long made the claim that the mass media normally is influenced towards the left. Even some Democrats have admitted of this, and Gallup polls reveal much transparently that there are more liberal reporters, editors and owners in the media than the conservatives. (Media has a liberal bias)
The attack of conservatism on the news media is based on two general grounds. The views of the Journalists are left to that of the public and the journalists frame news content in a mode that emphasizes such left criterions. (Journalism Survey: A Report Examining the 'Liberal Media' Claim: Journalists' Views on Politics, Economic Policy and Media Coverage) The traditionalists have faith on the mass media and more emphatically the news programs that made the reports inclined towards the liberal position on issues. (Media Bias Basics) Amidst a society...
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