Essays on Media Bias

According to Collins English Dictionary, “The mainstream media refers to conventional newspapers, television and other news sources that most people know about and regard as reliable.” This type of media reaches masses of people and is argued to be the most influential as it uses…

Mass media is an influential role in democratic societies. Media is a tool to express public opinion, respond to public worries and communicate important events and viewpoints. The central basis of democracy relies upon the impression of a fairly cognizant electorate. Noam Chomsky, a well-known…

Military families are always checking the news to see what is happening on the other side of the world, especially in war zones. Today, people have the ability to know a little bit more about what is happening in the world thanks to the news….

There are serious issues regarding the value of content and the increasing concentration of media ownership in the hands of large corporate groups. There is now the culture of non-stop breaking news, screens filled with exclusive news and unnecessarily fixating on the news which generates…

The peak of the fall season usually involves Thanksgiving and other holiday dinners. As we begin to approach the 2020 Presidential election, those holiday dinners can turn into hostile political interactions. Especially in families with split Democratic and Republican views, it can be an issue…

Digital media is so prominent in day to day life that it is often in your hand or back pocket. It is not often thought how this tool shapes thinking and perception but the fact is, it does. During the past decade, social media has…

Levinson constructs Wag the Dog in a way to allow audiences to perceive how truth is manipulated easily in the media. The deliberate repetition of rhetorical questions “Don’t you want to know if it’s true? What difference does it make if it’s true?” shows that…

Over the 20th century, censorship in Canada has been changed drastically. Its first intention was to protect the community from certain social degradation but has now shifted over to help support restrictions on certain public expression. This brings on the question of whether or not…

(CIEM) describes the phenomenon where incorrect information continues to influence our actions and beliefs even after it has been retracted. We aimed to understand what in particular about modern-day reading habits causes this effect. In this study, based on Ecker, Hogan, and Lewandowsky (2017), we…

Media is the plural sort of medium, which (broadly) portrays any channel of correspondence. This can join anything from printed paper to modernized data, and encompasses workmanship, news, informational substance and different diverse kinds of information. Automated media, which makes up an unyieldingly huge piece…