The Media is Biased essays

The Media is Biased essays Last night in Baghdad, the six oclock news anchor on channel two reported that the filthy Americans were trying to declare a Holy War on the entire Muslim nation. The media is biased when reporting information. Internationally, the media is usually influenced by political regimes. On a national level, the media will often adopt political points of view. Even locally, the media chooses to report news that supports the point of view of their ownership. One year ago today, John Brown was in the Persian Gulf onboard the United States Ship Cowpens. John, who is a medical doctor, went ashore to a small island known as Bahrain. As he was walking to a restaurant in town, he saw a little boy with his leg caught between the bumper of a car and a wall. There were many people standing around, and a man kept yelling that his brakes did not work. John knew instinctively that the boy needed immediate medical attention. He made a quick decision to carry the boy the two blocks back to the ship. When John arrived at the ship, he was forced by the damage to the boys leg to amputate it from the knee down. John saved the boys life. The next day, the local newspaper had a front-page headline that loosely translated into English as AMERICAN DOCTOR STEALS LOCAL BOYS LEG FOR SCIENCE EXPERIMENT. The fact that John decided to help a little boy in trouble was turned into a diplomatic problem by the bias of an international media outlet and the Am erican Doctors side of the story was never told. Another example of this behavior can be illustrated in Russia during the Cold War years. At that time, Russias primary news communicator was a newspaper entitled Pravda. All stories printed in Pravda were scrutinized for content by the communist government before they were allowed to be included in the daily newspaper. Again bias is demonstrated in the international media. ...