When it
comes to having media being biased there could be little to no solution on
fixing it. But when you think about it, there are ways to reduce the biased
even though it won’t go away entirely. I’ve conducted a few surveys throughout
my time of writing this essay and many people have had many different ways of
reducing but not stopping biased media completely on its tracks. One of my
surveyor named Vanessa didn’t mind me using her name and said “We should
basically change the anchor-men of the broad cast station due to the fact that
they have a strong connection to the republican an opinion of things.” But the
problem with this is that according to gale group opposing viewpoints
“Reporters were trained to keep personal beliefs to themselves when writing
about events.” If this is true, then The broad cast station itself should make
major changes to their policies. The people who had conducted the policies may
have had been right sided and not neutral or focus of both sides. Another one of my surveyors named Ahir stated
“ we should do a way better job at focusing on both sides of the subject and
the express their selves with an open opinion.” Which is also true, the idea of
having an opinion on the broadcast station is something news do not want. News
channels really do not want immediate change unless it is forced upon them to
changed their ways or they may even change over time, but that would take
forever.
When interviewing my professor of
sociology (Kirschner, David) he mentions that “there no such thing as an
unbiased news sources or party identification and that all news is biased. But
he said one way that news has been improved it is thanks to the internet and
thanks to the people ability to use a camera or an iPhone to recorded their own
shows or radio and podcasts they may have conducted by themselves. Everyday
people can take an objective to trying to report things that are bias as
possible, so you would like get these independent news sources that I think
tends to be more unbiased news.” One reason there so much negativity and biased
on the new channels is that the news no longer about conveying information, or
telling people what’s going on. It’s about making money, if they most extreme
story out there you’re going to tend to get the most viewers. The idea of more
attention and more money is causing them to be biased and grab certain audience
that they know will pay attention and watch their station. Another one of my surveyors said the
same concepts. Her name was Liz and she had stated “Money and funding is more
important to the stations out there than anything else. Watching like
nonconflictual stations would be more reliable to get information from rather
than the big broad cast stations out there than provokes money and power.
Coming from Opposing view point stated that “There are two main strands of
media criticism from the left. Some liberal critics accuse the media of being
vehicles of propaganda for big business and government. Others focus their
concern on the growing conservatism in the media as a result of the success of
Fox News and conservative talk radio. "Coming from voxeu are some more options
include to reduce bias media throughout world and its people that watches news.
- creating national endowments for journalism and media to ensure long-term financial independence
- allocating funds to content-providers as a function of audience and/or via a range of voting mechanisms
- expansion of the public broadcasting model to provide space and visibility for these outside content-providers
- subsidising investigative reporting (at the local, national, and international levels) as well as professional training for journalists
- subsidising media infrastructure (see e.g., Obama and Gordon Brown’s commitments to breach the digital divide)
- removing advertising from public TV stations, as imminent in France and Spain. This reduces commercial bias of their content and pressures their competitors to reduce bias; it also shifts ad revenues to private media, complementing plans to subsidise media consumption and media entry.
“For conservatives, bias in the
media lies in the political beliefs of the journalists” coming from opposing
viewpoints as a factual statement. “My argument that even the genuinely “liberal”
media is not nearly so liberal as the conservatives are conservative, that it
is not organized as a political movement— and that indeed, much of it has been
cowed into adopting conservative assumptions and arguments if only
unconsciously— was more than borne out by the collective yawn with which these
ideas were met by some of the media’s most liberal constituents.” The problem
is very complex in news stations, what the news says could be neutral and if
you believe that its neutral and you’re listening to fox news and you believe
that its objective then the person that believes this idea is completely being
misled on how they have their thoughts upon the news. People are biased also so
to speak when it comes to thinking that their always right and what they
perceive on televisions is also right of course. Then if you think your right
and all of your choices are right then who’s to say you’re not biased also? But
the problem with biased in the news is that you have to have a powerful backup
tell people that you’re not as biased as they perceive you as. Journalism is
good to have for the media to give their idea upon the news station trying to
convinced people that their not as biased. But most people have good and bad
thoughts upon the broadcast station ideas.
In the video and comments of the
comment sections on broadcast stations shows that the argument in the comments
shows people basically arguing over whether or not the new story is unbiased or
objective and why it’s not objective, and also you could see in the debates ant
the evidence in the story its self that it is not biased but just perceived as
biased when something happens on their broadcast stations. But as my professor
David stated broadcast stations could use the comment section as to get an idea
of what they’re doing because they know that their biased it’s just the fact of
looking at it and how other people would think about it.When it all comes around their really just playing with
people’s minds and emotions to see what they get from it and how people act on
the subject which is not a problem but is really not needed to start propaganda
throughout the world. The solution of stopping it or decreasing it in my mind
is to not have every news station so close to government control and the CEO’s
on what to publish and not. Having a Broadcast station with free thought would
release the thought and stress of having biased news. #STOPBIASEDMEDIA
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