News Media Bias Essay

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The rise of news media sites in the 1980’s such as CNN, ABC and NBC was advantageous for journalists because the journalists can twist the news stories to support the their point of view. It was a time before technology, such as smart devices, which allowed access to the internet to find truth in a news story much easier compared to how it was two decades ago. The early viewers would either try to combat the disadvantage of viewing different news stations on television such as ABC and CBS; however, the news outlets have similar left views. In the process, the viewer believes the story with the outlet’s view since multiple outlets reported similar stories. In 1996, Rupert Mudroch, a media mogul, hired Roger Ailes as its founding CEO after he left MSNBC. For the first time, viewers can watch multiple sides of a story by viewing a left news organization and Fox News, a right wing …show more content…

Viewers have biases on issues in America. People don’t want it to seem that the person is crazy because the person is the only one with the belief. To combat this, people view news organizations with similar beliefs to confirm the person's own beliefs as factual. In an interview conducted by John Stossel with Bernie Goldberg, Goldberg explains the trend viewers tend to follow in which viewers want to get the their opinions validated. For example, liberals tend to view strictly liberal shows to get their beliefs validated and conservatives tend to view conservative news organizations to get the conservative beliefs validated (Are You a Biased TV Viewer?). News organizations stay afloat mostly because of the white knights who defend the fixed points of views. The trend has continued even to this day, but it has slowly began to change at the turn of the first decade of the millenia. Since this time, younger, more educated views began to demand more from the news

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