Unbiased Newspaper Coverage

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In recent years we have seen a fall in reliable news and unbiased coverage. This is a travesty that has infected every form of news coverage. This infection can all be linked to the unverified news options in previous years, allowing for ads to be placed and targeted towards views. The effect of this is causing a large amount of polarization of the readers and in effect, the news coverage itself. So now that we have this landscape of reporting what are we to do? Well now instead of hoping for a smarter news media, we create a more intelligent reader. The easiest thing an educated person can do is to evaluate the source. When someone reads a story, and they must watch for errors. Also look at the source, the source itself is an important key …show more content…

The story of the serial rapist and former USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. Under this position he sexual assaulted 156 women and from this he also gathered 40 counts of child pornogrophy. He has now been sentenced to 2,100 months in jail. Larry Nassar will die in prison. How will the news media respond. The first source I turned to was the New York Times. The New York Times is a old and established institution, and had the previous 167 years to cultivate its presence in the media as an unbiased high quality news source. The coverage of the story was very close to the reputation of the Times, as it showed little to no opinion, stating only facts of the situation and what had happened. They also used numerous quotes and also linked to a video of the entire trial. They also had reporters, Scott Cacciola and Victor Mather, on sight to get first hand information from the …show more content…

Media Matters is a non-profit organization launched in 2004 with a sole purpose of keeping an eye on major TV coverage of events. I think this was the most interesting of the three stories. Media matters set out to analyze the mainstream news coverage in an attempt to weed out any bias. Between the coverage of this event on MSNBC, CNN and Fox, there was only 19 minutes and 27 seconds of news coverage. This seems like a rather small amount, especially considering the overwhelming amount of coverage in digital and print media. This article was focusing heavily on the coverage of the event, and based on the amount of sources, this seemed reliable. However, it is not useful for learning about the story

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