Hello again,
So on the week of halloween, we contunued our discussion on bias in media. One of the three groups who still had to make thier presentation went ahead and presented their project to the class. They were assgined to search for any sort of bias on the diferent radio channels. NPR was the only radio channel that was found to be really neutral in terms of their plitical views. It makes sense because it is government run and it is not looking for any profit from private companies. Whereas other local and national public radio channels were either shifted slightly to the left or to the right.
The reamining two groups went on wednesday. Their presentation was interesting too. In the end we as a class came to a conclusion that there is defiantely some kind of bias preelant in everything around us. A bias-free society is practically impossible because not everyone will agree with everything that is going on around us at this time.
One specific type of bias which was seen in every form of media was that, all of them were either suporting democrats or republicans. They would only cover news from the presidential candidates of these two parties while in reality there are many more third party candidates runnig for president. As citizens, we never learn or hear anything abot what these candidates have to say. The media does not give them any coverage at all. Hence, this is also one type of bias that eery media is following.
That's all we talked this week. On friday our class got cancelled because the STATE HALL--the builiding where our class meets was closed down by the Wayne State University Police Department. There was supposedly a 'bomb threat' in the building. All classes in the buidling were cancelled for the rest of the day. Thankfully there was no bomb found. I am assuming that someone made a prank call since it was Halloween on friday. That's it for this week. Stay tuned for more on Bias next week.
