Media Bias

For a long time, the media has been biased. After World War II, the news in America would only show anti-Communist information, movies would be against it and any other small source would be biased. In Communist countries, it would be the exact opposite and against capitalism and America. Today, the media is still very biased. The only thing that's changed is how many sources there are. For example, people can now do a search on the internet for something, but instead of just getting one side of a topic, we can now get both. Movies, books, music, television and local news all have a bias. In class, we read two separate articles about the raid in Pakistan, with one portraying the air strike as necessary and the other said that the raid was just a waste of time and killed civilians.

Many television stations as a whole are biased, although they try not to be. For example: NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, and many others. I think that the media will always be biased because everything comes from somebody who has their own opinions; people just need to find out what they believe for themselves and try to find common ground by comparing two or more different sources. Unfortunately, a lot of people may not think this. With the internet, a lot of people just believe whatever they read. Many people got 'Interesting Facts' in e-mails or it may have been a page in websites. Since they were reading it on the internet and they might have seen it multiple times, people assumed those facts were true. If they'd done research, however, they would have come across a site called snopes.com which is a fact checker for things on the internet and what people commonly hear. This website proved those 'facts' to really be false, including, "Each year, you swallow 7 spiders and other bugs during your sleep."

I think things will continue to be biased for a long time, especially with the way technology is advancing. Instead of believing it, people should start finding out for themselves on whether or not information is true.