The Media Bias And Propaganda

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Abanob Gress
American Government
Prof Margot Blowlby
10/04/2015
Gun owners frequently assert that the press in the United States is biased in favor of gun control. Media bias has affects most of our decisions, especially when it comes to gun control. While it is easy for critics of the media to point out inaccuracies in individual stories, proving more systematic bias is difficult perhaps a program such as CBS 's "The Guns of Autumn" was slanted. But, it might be argued, CBS 's coverage of animal rights activists is just as distorted as its coverage of hunters.. Media bias and propaganda are clearly detectable to those who are highly educated and mentally aware of media’s influence between us, but for most, media bias has a significant role in our daily life decisions.
In many cases, the pro-control and anti-control surveys were clearly displayable. The Caddell study was conducted by Cambridge Survey Reports, a liberal polling institution headed by Pat Caddell. The survey was sponsored the Center for the Study of and Prevention of Handgun Violence an ancestor of America 's leading anti-gun lobby, Handgun Control. The survey was used by its anti-gun sponsors to support their arguments regarding gun control. The Center released its results on the 10th anniversary of Robert Kennedy 's assassination. On the other hand, parts of the study involved marketing research for anti-gun media campaigns, such as testing which spokesperson for gun control would be most effective “the conservative majority struck down laws in Washington, D.C., and Chicago that effectively banned civilian ownership of handguns “Gun control and the constitution” (Barret). Moreover, the pro-gun polls were conducted by Decision-Making Information, a conservative poll...

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...the press treated the two stories quite differently.

In general, close analysis of coverage of the two polls indicates that many people of the American print media are biased in favor of gun control, so much so that they distorted stories on the subject of public opinion polling of gun control attitudes, the next logical step is to what motives the media might have had for its slanted coverage of the public opinion poll.

Work Cited
Barrett, Paul M. “Gun Control and the Constitution: Should We Amend the Second Amendment?” Bloomberg Business Week. Bloomberg, 20 Feb. 2014. Web. 13 Jul 2014.
Rosie, Dickens. “Gun control and media bias: pro-gun control a media analyst for “MediaWatch” published by the Media Research Center, in Alexandria, Va.
Alec, Torres. “A Hunter On Gun Control: 'We Want Something To Change” New York Daily News, Wachentong D.C, Sebtanmber 17, 2013

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