News Media Bias Place in Society
Being critical of news media seems to be a fashionable stance in our current world of cynicism. ... More specifically, news media is most often accused of being biased in its delivery of the happenings of the world. ... Turn on the television on most evenings and you will likely find news magazine shows such as 20/20 and Dateline covering the most current events. With the popularity of these news outlets, come its critics who laud that they border on being more entertaining than informational due to the semi-objective editorialized way the shows are written. ... During the time immediately following 9/11 to now, almost every form of popular news media in this country has singled out Osama Bin Laden as the epitome of all evil. This is a clear bias, yet we accept it on the bases of patriotism and nationalism. When more controversial topics are grey rather than black and white, news shows have no choice but to focus on a specific perspective by manipulating how a story is told.