User talk:Jasdeepjune28

Jasdeep Sidhu Period 2 Biased media I believe media is biased and is biased towards liberals and their reports greatly reflect that. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left. The history is full of examples of which show some kind of biasness. At the start of the 20th century many American newspapers engaged in yellow journalism to increase sales. William Randolph Hearst, publisher of several major-market newspapers, deliberately falsified stories of incidents, which may have contributed to the Spanish-American War. In the years leading up to World War II, politicians who favored the United States entering the war on the German side accused the international media of pro-Jewish bias, and often asserted that newspapers opposing entry of the United States on the German side were controlled by Jews. They claimed that reports of German mistreatment of Jews were biased and without foundation.

The main reason for this biasness is profit and method is over simplification. For example in present time, sometime media does not publish or exaggerate one and neglects others, all this is done for rating, money and profit. The breaking of the Lewinsky scandal by conservative Matt Drudge, instead of Newsweek, which originally had the story but did not report it, was cited by the Drudge and other conservative critics as an example of liberal media bias. Media is extremely reluctant to criticize the conduct of American soldiers, for fear of upsetting their viewers and thus losing profits. This could hypothetically keep certain concerns over soldiers' conduct off the US political agenda. For example Haditha massacre, media coverage has been considerably less than in European countries such as the United Kingdom and the killing of Nicola Calipari by an American soldier, which Italian prosecutors are now classifying murder, only received U.S. media coverage because the victim was an Italian Major-General.

The biasness pattern is towards the left as most of the reporters are liberal. Lichter-Rothman study surveyed political attitudes and voting patterns of 240 journalists working for such major media as The New York Times, the Washington Post, US News and World Report, the Wall Street Journal and all the networks. His concluded that 90 percent favored abortion, 80 percent supported affirmative action, 81 percent voted Democratic in every election, Most blamed the U.S. for Third World poverty.

Thus it can be media is biased, its liberal, democratic, oversimplifies, makes profit but surly its way better than a tulatarian press and does a fine job of a watch dog over the government.