The Media is Biased

Last night in Baghdad, the six o’clock news anchor on channel two reported that the filthy Americans were trying to declare a “Holy War” on the entire Muslim nation. The media is biased when reporting information. Internationally, the media is usually influenced by political regimes. On a national level, the media will often adopt political points of view. Even locally, the media chooses to report news that supports the point of view of their ownership.

One year ago today, John Brown was in the Persian Gulf onboard the United States Ship Cowpens. John, who is a medical doctor, went ashore to a small island known as Bahrain. As he was walking to a restaurant in town, he saw a little boy with his leg caught between the bumper of a car and a wall. There were many people standing around, and a man kept yelling that his brakes did not work. John knew instinctively that the boy needed immediate medical attention. He made a quick decision to carry the boy the two blocks back to the ship. When John arrived at the ship, he was forced by the damage to the boy’s leg

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All stories printed in Pravda were scrutinized for content by the communist government before they were allowed to be included in the daily newspaper. The lead story from the incident is usually related to the “White House” policy of bringing the country together and declaring war on terrorism. At that time, Russia’s primary news communicator was a newspaper entitled Pravda.

The owner of the Los Angeles Times is a person with liberal ideas and belongs to the democratic political party. The next day, the local newspaper had a front-page headline that loosely translated into English as “AMERICAN DOCTOR STEALS LOCAL BOYS LEG FOR SCIENCE EXPERIMENT”. Given his past behavior and performance, a logical person would predict otherwise. This was clearly an opinion, and not was not the objective reporting of information. Another example of this behavior can be illustrated in Russia during the “Cold War” years. Although it is not wrong, it is extremely political not to mention the FBI’s mistake. During the broadcast of the ABC Nightly News two years ago, Peter Jennings questioned vote counting in the state of Florida. Another circumstance that is reported nationally on a daily basis is the “September 11” tragedy of last year. This theory can also be demonstrated in publications owned by private interests. The theory of all media being biased is true and will continue to be so until there is nobody left in the shadows with a hidden agenda. These influences make it impossible for the media to deliver objective opinions.

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