Paper Example on Political Journalism

A significant number of conservatives contend that liberal journalists tend to connect their liberal convictions in the news they report, while liberal journalists maintain that they are not biased in their reporting (Glynn, 551). The media ought to report news neutrally to enable viewers to generate their perspectives. Regrettably, this is not the case as there is bias in the media. The extensive exposure allows them to deliver their ideas to the general public regardless of how the public responds. Accusations of liberal media bias are more likely to occur than those of conservative media bias, and such claims were dated several decades ago.

There are various forms of bias in the media ranging from corporate to racial. As there are different types of media bias, what the media spend their time more on is government and the political system. The media has a wide range of topics to cover and how they do it solely depends on them. However, the media choose to report only on stories which they feel they are more beneficial to them. The media is confronted by some bias live omissions where an article reports on only one side of the story over a period. Through story selection, the media indicates bias when it chooses to focus on stories that support a particular side of the issue while leaving the other side. Also, the coverage of a story is said to be a spin bias when the story has only one interpretation of a particular issue or event. For instance, the Nixon administration reported that the news media was Partisan against the United States battle in Vietnam. Moreover, Oprah Winfrey has been praised for having promoted the then-presidential candidate Barrack journey in overtaking Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Some reporters are primarily liberal and are even regarded as more liberal than the general public. Such reporters have a way of distorting news to assist the Democrats and the liberal agenda (Niculae, 61). In essence, it sounds a bit impractical to find a plain answer on any considerable agenda from the media. All sources of media create a particular audience for the reports that they prepare. As such, they will remove some parts of the information to put across what they want to be received by the audience. Certainly, there is bias in the media, and it is more inclined to the liberal perspectives. Therefore, in reality, there is a media inclination, and yes it, as a rule, inclines towards the liberal view point, the same number of columnists and writers has liberal perspectives themselves.

The New York Times tweeted misleading images of the visit paid by the team to the White House in the third week of April 2017. The paper tweeted the photo of the teams visit in the year 2015 during the reign of president Barrack Obama and in 2017 with President Donald Trump. The image demonstrated media bias because it was trying to make it look like a big number of players and personnel were spurning the event against United States President Donald Trump (Misleading NYT Photo of Patriots White House Visit, 2) According to the New England Patriots, the images were not similar as the personnel was seated on the South Lawn in 2017, and not standing with the team as it was in 2015 with President Barrack Obama. For the Patriots to explain themselves in a better position, they as well tweeted an image of the team in 2004 during the presidency of George W. Bush the very last moment they had won two Super Bowls for three consecutive years.

During this event in 2004, 36 players visited the White house unlike in 2017 where only 34 players visited. The tweet by the New York Times indicated bias spin as the story only had a single interpretation of the teams visit to the White House. As such, the media bias of the paper has a negative impact on the opinion of the public. It has become common for players not to attend White House trip both for political and personal reasons. However, the New York Times made it seem as there was an immense boycott by the team against president Trump and therefore misleading the general public to believe that the team is against the presidency of Donald Trump.

The article, September TV Coverage of Trump indicated liberal media bias. According to the article, the NBC, ABS and CBS news reported that President Donald Trump got 92% negative press and only 8% positive press for the September month. Since the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated, the media has been using 90% anti-Trump against 10% pro-Trump and not including neutral or informational coverage. In particular, for September, the media paid most of their attention mainly on topics including immigration policy, Donald Trumps criticism of NFL players kneeling during National Anthem, the showdown with North Korea, Presidents response to hurricanes, effort to repeal ObamaCare and use of expensive jets by cabinet officers.

The topics accounted for over 67% of the managements TV news report in September. Unlike in North Korea where the crisis got a great deal attention, the topic had a neutral coverage as it received little evaluative comments (September TV Coverage of Trump, 2). According to the U.S media, 100% of the coverage regarding the use of expensive jets by cabinet officials was negative same as the immigration policy. According to a poll carried out by CNN at the end of September, 49% of the players who knelt down were wrong in doing so while 43% of them believe that nothing was wrong with kneeling down during the National Anthem. Consequently, 81% of the comments were criticizing Donald Trump while only 19% were supporting him. As for the hurricane in Florida, the figures given in the report omitted some network coverage of the storms but concentrated on the response of president Trump. As such, the coverage received little evaluative comments regarding Trumps reply on the Florida hurricane, the media broadcasted 29 negative comments concerning his statement and only two positive comments and therefore giving him a 94% unfavorable press. The responsibility of the media which is to deliver fair, honest and accurate information that is essential to the public. However, the media has shown bias that translates into a negative impact on the opinion of the general public. As such, the media shapes the perspectives of the public and hence their political comments and support.

Works Cited

Glynn, Carroll J., and Michael E. Huge. "How pervasive are perceptions of bias? Exploring judgments of media bias in financial news." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 26.4 (2014): 543-553.

Niculae, Vlad, et al. "Quotus: The structure of political media coverage as revealed by quoting patterns." Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2015.

Students News Daily: September TV Coverage of Trump. 11 October 2017 Retrieved from https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/example-of-media-bias/Students News Daily: Misleading NYT Photo of Patriots White House Visit. 26 April 2017 Retrieved from https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/example-of-media-bias/