The Role of Media Bias in American Society Essay -- Media News Reporti

The Role of Media Bias in American Society One of the major problems in the American media today is non-objective reporting which is also known as bias. This has been a trend since the early 1980?s and is very alarming for American citizens who watch the news for truth and honest reporting. Not only has bias been a problem in the broadcast media of ABC, NBC, and CBS, but it has also been a problem in mainstream newspapers such as The New York Times, The Sun, and The Boston Globe. For years, these media outlets have built their reputations on truth and now the trend is to lean left and not tell the whole story. Evidence of this has become very prominent in war coverage and election bias. Bias in the media is a big issue and causes lots of problems throughout the public such as losing trust in a once great source for news, people going elsewhere for information, being ill-informed, and leading to a low voter turnout. Public trust in the media has seen a significant drop since the media has started editorializing stories instead of reporting objectively. The media, which has dominated the American landscape as the number one news source for so long, has become complacent with their place in society. Media has become part of conglomerations consisting or television, newspapers, and movie companies all under on major corporation. Larger corporations which have started to buy out the original companies are more in it for the money leaving the news portion of the company up to the editors. Leaving editing to the editors can possibly lead to a large bias that will sway the public?s opinion when it comes to elections, policy making, and a lack of being a watchdog for the two major political parties. Editors who make th... ...ongressman, Senators, Governors, in some states, judges, and on national election days when they vote for the next president of the United States. Works Cited: Cooper, S. D. (Jan 2005). Bringing Some Clarity to the Media Bias Debate. Review of Communication. 5 (1), 81. Cunningham, B. (Sep/Oct 2004). Our Readers, Ourselves. Columbia Journalism Review. 43 (3), 64. Kelliher, L. (Mar/Apr 2004). Fox Watch: MoveOn.org members take bias watching into their living rooms. Columbia Journalism Review. 42 (6), 8. Kohut, A. (Mar/Apr 2002). Listen Up Bias Mongers! The Audience Doesn?t Agree. Columbia Journalism Review. 40 (6), 68. McGowan, W. (1995, April). Left Out? Does a co-dependent relationship exist between the liberal media and the Democratic Party keep both of them off the road to recovery? American Journalism Review. 17 (3), 40.