Media Bias

Archy1221 said:
It doesn’t make sense.  I can’t imagine any reason for the media to not be fair no matter who they are covering.  I’m not a journalist but that seems pretty basic 101 stuff.  Because Trump was a jerk, or any Republican for that matter, to the media doesn’t give them reason to report on him unfairly.  
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I’m sorry, but I’m tired of hearing stuff like this from people who voted for Trump.  The main news outlets were not unfair to Trump.  He’s a piece of s#!t that has been building towards this week for four years. His actions over the last four years deserved to he reported.  
 

He didn’t all of a sudden become a bad guy and a cancer on our country this week.  

 
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It gets annoying seeing how often people don't have even a simple understanding of bias.

If person A takes a dump on a puppy and person B rolls their eyes at a puppy, people are going to talk more meanly about person A. No bias is required for that to happen.

 
Moiraine said:
It gets annoying seeing how often people don't have even a simple understanding of bias.

If person A takes a dump on a puppy and person B rolls their eyes at a puppy, people are going to talk more meanly about person A. No bias is required for that to happen.
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if the puppy is a democrat the trumpers would hate the guy who pooped on the puppy because he didn't shoot the puppy.  there can be no mercy for the dems.  no weakness shown.    no compromise is possible.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
You shared the article with the group,. Is it just because you liked their bar graph? 
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It’s because the article shows the clear bias in media coverage.  Their reasoning behind the clear bias doesnt make sense considering past elections show the same bias and Repubs still won. The bar graph is kinda cool though. 

 
Archy1221 said:
It’s because the article shows the clear bias in media coverage.  Their reasoning behind the clear bias doesnt make sense considering past elections show the same bias and Repubs still won. The bar graph is kinda cool though. 
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Uhm....the people who made the bar graph and explained their methodology also went to the trouble of providing context and analysis. They understand this better than you or I and I think they were hoping people genuinely wanted to learn something.

I think they chose the horse racing  analogy  because it's something even a child would understand: being the front runner generates a positive storyline, falling behind generates a negative storyline. In close races with lots of ebbs and flows it's no doubt harder to gauge. Gaffes, misstatements, and scandals always get play. 

If you're talking about Donald Trump, who broke all kinds of precedents, the media hated him. He's an unprincipled liar who attacks anyone who questions him -- which is what the free media is supposed to do. For many of us, the media showed too much restraint in calling him out,. Trump enjoyed a celebrity bias that gave him a huge advantage. If you'd like, I can make a bar graph that proves it. 

 
I know a teacher who doesn't use students names on his essay tests, just a number ID, that way there is no. bias on his part when he grades their test.

I have always thought that a newspaper/online rag that reported news and wrote articles WITHOUT using their name would be simply amazing.  I think a lot of people would be shocked at what they really agree and disagree with, simply by not knowing who wrote the piece.  

It would be like one of those dating shows where you don't know who you are talking too.  CATFISHED!  

 
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teachercd said:
I know a teacher who doesn't use students names on his essay tests, just a number ID, that way there is no. bias on his part when he grades their test.

I have always thought that a newspaper/online rag that reported news and wrote articles WITHOUT using their name would be simply amazing.  I think a lot of people would be shocked at what they really agree and disagree with, simply by not knowing who wrote the piece.  

It would be like one of those dating shows where you don't know who you are talking too.  CATFISHED!  
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I don’t know as it would make much of a difference for non-idiots. Have you read any Breitbart articles before?

 
teachercd said:
I know a teacher who doesn't use students names on his essay tests, just a number ID, that way there is no. bias on his part when he grades their test.

I have always thought that a newspaper/online rag that reported news and wrote articles WITHOUT using their name would be simply amazing.  I think a lot of people would be shocked at what they really agree and disagree with, simply by not knowing who wrote the piece.  

It would be like one of those dating shows where you don't know who you are talking too.  CATFISHED!  
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There are some funny man on the street interviews with random people showing this very thing. 

 
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