Argumentative Analysis

Even only listening to Fox, Herman Cane, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity I would be getting plenty of political coverage of liberals. Fox News has many liberal commentators who are on the “conservative” network and regularly state the left-wing point of view. Rush and Sean, for instance, inform their listeners of liberal views perfectly plain if one is listening. Fox News itself has hosted many liberals Tamara Holder, ( a

A FOX-TV broadcast of car crashes and animal attacks attracted the network its highest viewer ratings. "Shock-jock," Howard Stern has taken his Saturday night television show on CBS and in most markets quadrupled the ratings in that time slot for the 18-34 year old male demographic. It should not be the responsibility or even the job of the FCC or any other wacky Right Wing philanthropist group to tell John Q. Public what he can see, hear, and

Never before has there been a grosser abuse of power to inform than what we see with late night today. It is not enough to say late night comedy news leans left, but it despises the right. Republicans are often targeted by late night comedy just because they’re republican. There is a constant reference to the Nazi party as late-night hosts bash republicans which more than helps viewers make that association. On one occasion, late night host Samantha Bee issued an apology to a young man who attended a Conservative Political Action Conference.

In one of the republican debates Ted Cruz called out the moderator for asking questions that had tendencies of liberal policies. He said “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”, a big round of applauses came right after he made the statement, which made a point . And conservatives got tired of being questioned with a liberal influence, so they made a move. Trump certainly had a lot of people behind him thanks to favors and gifts. And even if it wasn’t with gifts, speaking about Trump means ratings so a lot of outlets started covering more and more his steps. Stephen Hayes, a Fox News Special Report panelist, tweeted about it, he said, “The number of publicly pro-Trump pols/commentators who are privately anti-Trump or at least not at all pro-Trump? A really big number.” This represented money for the news organization and even if trump wasn’t for the ideology they tend to favor they would still emphasize it because it is profitable. So, during this presidential election, bias media was a very popular theme, but that should push people away from the

Ken Stern explains this phenomenon when he says, “When you are a liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be.” In short, news networks probably aren’t being prejudice on purpose; Democrats are simply going to report the news that is important to them, which probably isn’t the same news that is valued by their Republican cohorts. That being said, this bias still greatly impacts the American people. For every five liberal reports in the media, there is only one conservative. Ken Stern describes how this makes many Americans feel when he writes, “They looked at a media and saw stories that did not reflect the world that they knew or the fears that they had”

Often media broadcasters tend to lean to this side, therefore giving them the image of being liberally bias. Chris Mathews and Keith Oberman from MSNBC are two examples of broadcasters that have been accused of delivering their news with a liberal twist to it. Journalists tend to vote on the liberal side of situations, but still say that while they are on the job they only tell the news in the fairest way and the way that will be least offensive as well as respectful to who it will be presented. In many cases however, this report can come out with an oddly left sided tone (thatliberalmedia.com). Since 1991 when Katie Couric became co-host of NBC’s Today Show, she has used her powerful spot in the media to praise significant liberal figures such as Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter. At the same time however, Couric has never been shy about complaining about “right winged conservatives”

Before the time of the internet, people got their news strictly from that of basic television, radio, and newspapers. This limited the amount of viewpoints any given person could hear or see, and in turn left the opportunity to spin information one way or another open. Today, that flaw still exists, but there are now competing views of any given story. For television networks, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and ABC are seen as liberal news stations, while FOX is seen as a conservative station. Both sides are guilty of having a bias toward their respective views,

The central concepts in the study are voter choice and political talk radio. Voter choice is operationally defined in terms of respondents who voted Republican in the Senate, House, and gubernatorial races in 1994. Respondents in the study were asked if they voted Democratic or Republican in each of the races. Those that did not vote, or who voted third party candidates were not included in the analysis. Political talk radio is defined as “call-in shows that emphasize discussion of politicians, elections, and public policy issues”. Political talk radio is operationally defined in terms of respondents who listened to the Rush Limbaugh show. Respondents were asked a series of questions pertaining to how often if at all did they listen to the Limbaugh show. The responses were measured on a 3-point scale, 0 equals respondents who did not listen at all, 1 equals respondents who listen sometimes, and 2 equals respondents who listened frequently. The variables ideology, party identification, state of the economy evaluations, Protestant affiliation, and incumbency status were also used in the study. These variables were used to control for spurious

Since the ability to communicate was invented, conservatives have always argued that there is a liberal bias in the media; whereas the liberals have argued that the conservatives have used the media to control people with fear and create a division in the public. Let’s first look at what is a liberal and conservative. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a liberal is defined as “believing that government should be active in supporting social and political change” and “not opposed to new ideas or ways of behaving that are not traditional or widely accepted;” whereas a conservative is defined as “believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society” and “not liking or accepting changes or new ideas”

Within the pro-choice world there are many issues that are discussed like abortion, the instant where life begins and the use of contraceptives. This article will focus on not only the issue of using of contraceptives, but specifically the distribution of oral contraceptives (“the pill”) to teenage girls without their parent’s consent.

Rush Limbaugh word choices are the problem. On a live radio show with over 12 million listeners, Limbaugh has openly called third year Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke multiple derogatory words, including “slut” and “prostitute.” This has been spanned out over three days, where he has transitioned the situation into a public debate. Public Relations is needed to maintain Limbaugh positive political platform for the future.

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There are more liberal news sources than conservative news sources. For example ABC is considered a left sided source, it is more liberal based then conservative based. NBS news is also another source that is liberal, it is more focused on the personal preference of left sided viewers. Another liberal news source is CBS, like ABC and NBS it is politically based on the left side and it accommodates the liberal viewers. MSNBC is a news source that is more on the strong liberal side, it is most likely known for being very left sided with their news reports. A very popular liberal news source is CNN, it is very favored by the majority of the people. All these liberal new sources are intended to please the viewers and their political

The immediate impact following the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine was rise of right wing talk radio shows and the emergence of right leaning cable news station, Fox News. With the end of the Fairness Doctrine, no longer holds broadcasters and radio hosts to balance their programing. In addition, technological advancement allowed national syndicate talk radio shows to emerge enable the rise of conservative radio talks to grow exponentially. Especially, a year later after the repeal in 1988, Rush Limbaugh would become the top radio-host in the country. Throughout his radio program, Limbaugh is advancing the right-wing agenda. This was evident in the viewership account between 13.5 million to 20 million listeners. The characteristics

Ideology is defined by Dictionary.com as “ a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests of a nation, political system, etc. and underlies political action.” (“Ideology”) Weekly magazines, in fact all media, are infused with ideology. Its existence is inevitable. While news magazines strive to provide ideological diversity, the bottom line is that most media exists to promote some sort of ideology. Campbell Brown discussed this topic tonight on Fox News’ Media Buzz. “When asked if she’s a journalist or an advocate, she revealed she doesn’t think journalists can be truly objective, pointing out that every reporter comes to the story with their own bias.” (http://video.foxnews.com/v/4363481632001/campbell-brown-hits-tv-news/?#sp=show-clips). In addition, Rod Dreher wrote in a recent article, “Magazines, particularly those of a certain stripe, have exclusion in their DNA.” (Dreher) The Nation, a progressive or liberal magazine and The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, seem to be targeting a specific audience. They are not even striving to be ideologically diverse within themselves. Time, a weekly magazine that has a considerably larger circulation, appears to have more ideological diversity, or at least be considered a more moderate publication. The stories and tone of each of these magazines caters to its intended audiences.