The document discusses different types of media bias, including in print media, visual media like cartoons and ads, data displays, and personal narratives. It provides several examples of alleged liberal bias in how issues like gun control votes and the reporting on homelessness are portrayed. The conclusion acknowledges that completely unbiased reporting is difficult but that media should aim to minimize bias.

1. BIAS IN THE
MEDIA
BY: JOSH BRALLEY AND ALAN HENSON

2. GROUP 1
PRINT MEDIA (NEWSPAPER ARTICLE)

3. HOW PRINT ARTICLES
AFFECT PUBLIC OPINION
Senator Tommy Tucker of Waxhaw, NC told one news
reporter in a public hearing "I am the senator, you are the
citizen. You need to be quiet”.
The reporter was asking about a bill that allowed more
government secrecy.
By only quoting the senator and not the reporter it made
Senator Tommy Tucker look like a jerk.

4. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
N.Y. Times Denial Of Media Bias Fails To
Make Its Argument
• Hard to stay unbiased about an issue no
matter who you are.
• Forbes known for being somewhat
conservative because of thier “high value”
living.

5. GROUP 2
VISUAL WITH WORDS (AD & CARTOON)

6. BIAS CARTOONS
• Can support both sides
• Points out things some
might not have noticed

7. BIAS CARTOONS
(CONT.)
• Shows same topic but different
views
• A lot of cartoons tend to favor
Liberal politicians.

8. BIAS AD’S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUQ-j2sOA7c

9. BIAS SOUND BITES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV2ye3Ag6fs

10. GROUP 3
VISUAL DISPLAY (PIE CHART & BIRTH CERTIFICATE)

11. MEDIAS CHOICE OF
TOPICS
• Decide to report on something
depending on view
• Most compelling story not always
talked about
• Obama’s birth certificate

12. GRAPH
How Americans Perceive TV News
Media
Too Liberal
About Right
Too Conservative
Most people don’t perceive TV news as mostly
Conservative, which differs from most of what some TV
station say.

13. GROUP 4
INFORMATIONAL (WEB ARTICLE)

14. BIAS SOUND BITES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kFTyyo5mBE

15. SENATE GUN VOTE
BIAS
“Gun Vote Triggers Media Outcry” –Dylan Byers
46 Senators recently voted against background checks for
guns
Media is outraged by Senators

16. SENATE GUN VOTE
BIAS
Piers Morgan calls Senators “a pathetic, gutless bunch of
cowards”
New York Times quotes Gabby Giffords who says Senate is
“in gun lobby’s grip”
Huffington Post published article “No Justice”
Joe Scarborough said people were “insulted”

17. SENATE GUN VOTE
BIAS
Senators have been attacked by numerous outlets
“I guess the media get annoyed when Senators listen to their
constituents and think for themselves, rather than doing the
media’s bidding” –Bill Kristol, Editor in Chief of Weekly
Standard

18. SENATE GUN VOTE
BIAS
“It’s clearly biased and unmistakably ideological. These
outlets can do what they do want, but nobody should kid
themselves about what they’re doing.” -John Podhoretz of
the New York Post

19. GROUP 5
PERSONAL NARRATIVE

20. “BIAS”
“Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How Media Distorts the News”
by: Bernard Goldberg
Narrative about Goldberg’s 28 year experience with CBS
Discusses how CBS would portray events

21. “BIAS”
Goldberg came to editors and requested an end to
bias, editors rejected
Talks about bias in relations between sexes, press coverage
of race, terrorism, homelessness, and presidential races

22. “BIAS”
CBS reported homelessness as direct correlation between
Republican budget cuts
Also addresses other networks who are bias

23. GROUP 6
MINI-DOCUMENTARY

24. PRAGER UNIVERSITY:
PROVING A MEDIA BIAS
Tim Groseclose talks about a bias in media
93% of D.C. based reporters vote Democrat
Says bias comes in not reporting certain truths
Media says Bush Tax Cuts only benefitted rich, when the
wealthy benefitted less

25. PRAGER UNIVERSITY:
PROVING A MEDIA BIAS
Gloseclose says media sways many Americans who would
be right-of-center to be moderates
Gloseclose also says much of America would be right-wing
voters if it weren’t for many media outlets
Groseclose said America would be as conservative as Texas
if it were not for media bias in a majority of outlets

26. CONCLUSION
Overall no matter how hard you try it is almost impossible to
be fair to all sides of the argument.
News media should do their best to minimize the gap in the
bias.
Even while doing this we still felt it was hard to stay
unbiased.

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