It is right, or a little corrupt, or is it a really a one sided view of a situation for a specific party? Is the media as a whole against the government or just President Bush and his group?
2006-06-21 15:31:12 · 5 answers · asked by Japal911 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The media organizations are run by very rich, powerful people. They have agendas like everyone else. Yours and mine are to get educated, get good jobs, make a decent living, etc. The media's job is to present a story that sells you on consuming their version of the news. That way, the more that people watch or read their news, the more money they make. And if they report from an angle ( conservative, liberal, American /Patriotic ) they get attention and hopefully more advertising dollars. Picture this, Mr. Jones runs the XYZ TV Network. He also has invested in the stock of corporations that make guns, fighter jets and ammunition - it only makes him wealthier, and therefore more powerful, if his stock increases in value because the US government is buying weaponry from the companies he has invested in. The media, by no means whatsoever, is against President Bush. If anything, they cater to him, giving his side of the story when he was barking about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein. Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam is in captivity. So, why is the media not screaming at him about ending the war as his "goals" of eliminating wmd's and Hussein were accomplished? The popular media, for the most part, is run by conservative thinkers who want a good story first, and the truth later.
2006-06-21 16:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by commonsense 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It most definitely is biased, mostly to the left. More TV stations, more newspapers, more reporters, etc. They have their own agenda. The mainstream media is biased against the President. We're at war, yet they run a story (NY Times) on what they call "wiretapping", when they know that it's nothing of the sort. The Valerie Plame "outing". Her whole damn neighborhood knew she worked for the CIA. Rove WASN'T indicted, but that got hardly any mention as compared to when they were speculating that he was going down - trash the guy without evidence, but you don't clean it off of him when you find out you were wrong? That's wrong! The answer? YES!! It's biased and incorrect!!!
2006-06-21 15:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Boof 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly the media is biased. But it is not a bias towards the Conservative or the Liberal point of view. They don't care if you are Republican or Democrat. The media is biased towards the sensational. Good, dull stories do not get much attention in the media, while sex and violence are headlines across the world.
2006-06-21 16:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by Nick H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.. it reports the bad things that everyone does... that's its job... that doesn't mean it's bias because it reports the bad things...
Remember Clinton... that scandal was the lead story for like 2 years straight... how is that bias?
2006-06-21 15:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
FOX reports, you decide
2006-06-21 15:35:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋