Media bias is a very dangerous fiction that plays a significant role in the process of social polarization and motived intellectual segregation to maintain division within societies. Furthermore, media one-sidedness contributes significantly to the stereotyping of any targeted; race, religion, ethnic groups throughout the distribution of false information or a single point of view. To mainly serve its agenda and to gain more audience views. These ten Annotated Bibliography listed below will give specific views of the different aspect of the issue.
Five of them will be from open internet sources, and five will be from peer-reviewed articles through the American Public university library.
Popular Source:
- Wessel, L. (2017, 11 03). Making sense of media bias. Retrieved from knowable magazine: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2017/making-sense-media-bias
This Online Magazine conducted a report based on the research that was performed by David (Strömberg) of Stockholm University, Media influence on politics and policies. The article examined various aspects of media bias and its influence on politics.
The power of media biased, examined, and one of the consistent findings back to the extensive initial studies is that; it is very problematic to change people’s voting aims. For example, if the person was a left-winger and exposed to right-wing media or vice-versa, the study finds that that person would not be interested in reading the material. Furthermore, if the same person involuntarily exposed to such material, it would not relevantly matter because such an individual would not take it in due to such material would not align with their point of views.
- Carney, T. P. (2015, December 21). Liberal News Media Bias Has a Serious Effect. Retrieved from nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/11/why-has-trust-in-the-news-media-declined/liberal-news-media-bias-has-a-serious-effect
The Author, of this article lecture how media bias represents a potent danger to the American democracy, and how it tends to foster distrust between media outlets and the public, and also decrees the quality of journalism, throughout it biased practices, serval media outlets focusing on one narrative of stories such as; Racial, Culture, Ethnical, and religious to gain more reviews. Furthermore, media outlets tend to pick specific stories that relevant to Racial, cultural, Ethnic, and Religious matters to invoke consumers a sense of personalization of the giving story to create the spin of the story for years.
- Mastrine, J. (2019, Jan 05). How to Spot 11 Types of Media Bias. Retrieved from Allsides: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/how-to-spot-types-of-media-bias
This web site detailing’s eleven ways on how to spot Media bias. Thoroughly, this web site listed a screenshot of some media outlets posts and underlined some of the information was provided in those posts and explained how these information’s was misleading us, and how these outlets are listing opinions as a fact in their posts in effort to target a specific group, in order to gain more views.
- Leonhardt, D. (2019, January 31). The Six Forms of Media Bias. Retrieved from nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/media-bias-howard-schultz.html
Opinion columnist David Leonhardt wrote this article, the article mainly discusses the inveighs the bias against centrism. Furthermore, the writer made a list of his own six forms of media bias that currently exists within the modern media platforms; the writer also has defined the importunity of the Impartiality and the necessity of defending it. The writer goals to give; news consumers more information about bias inside media and to motivate them to research a particular case which they might be interested in.
- D, J. (2018, March 15). Bias by Omission. Retrieved from stop media bias now: https://stopmediabiasnow.com/bias-by-omission/
This website focusses on one type of media bias, which is Bias by Omission. Moreover, the website gives the reader a little descriptive detail on the definition of bias by omission and how it contributes significantly to the polarization process of the public views, throughout the use of neglecting part of the story or hiding the facts, leaving the story segment nothing but a propaganda.
Peer Reviewed Article:
- Ardèvol-Abreu, A., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2017). Effects of Editorial Media Bias Perception and Media Trust on the Use of Traditional, Citizen, and Social Media News. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 94(3), 703–724. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699016654684
This peer-reviewed article explains the effect of media bias impose on the public on regards to news consumption. The finding of the study, which they conducted, shows that “apparent media bias has a negative consequence on all news use without distinction between news in outmoded, citizen, or social media. Perceived bias may move citizens toward different, alternative sources of information, which they consider to be less biased or free of bias.” (Ardèvol-Abreu, 2017). Also, this article but the spot-on the mainstream media outlet, overlooking certain demographic areas in order to maintain social division makes it more robust or nearly unbearable for entities to make conclusions in all matters of their lives.
- Weeks, B., Kim, D., Hahn, L., Diehl, T., & Kwak, N. (2019). Hostile Media Perceptions in the Age of Social Media: Following Politicians, Emotions, and Perceptions of Media Bias. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 63(3), 374–392. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2019.1653069
The authors of this peer-reviewed article suggested that one of the many negative contributions that media bias cause, is the enthusiasm to an individual’s support a specific case, and as well the anger and anxiety that biased news causes toward the opposite side of the issue. This article specifically discusses the relationship that the media biased, plays between the politician and their supporters. Emotive responses may also increase by the personalization of political statements on social platforms. Personalization can reinforce the connection between voters and candidates, predominantly when that personalization is emotional.
- Сheah, H. (2016). Does foreign media entry discipline or provoke local media bias? International Journal of Economic Theory, 12(4), 335–359. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12099
This Article tends to show the enormous positive influence that foreign media applies on the local or the biased-control media outlets by adding a second reliable source of information to the public in an aim to provide the public with a wider point of view that they can relay their decision accordingly. Furthermore, the existence of second reliable source intends to give the biased media outlets a push to adjust their editorial policies more toward the center of the spectrum, in order to compete with the foreign media sources, for profit-generating purposes.