Bias in Political Media
Bias in Political Media
Bias is defined as prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group in a way considered to be unfair. Meet the Press is a weekly American news program known to be very non-bias. But with David Gregory, being his 5th consecutive year as moderator, I found that Gregory demonstrated bias during the Sunday episode of Meet the Press. The top stories this episode were the “Obamacare Rollout” and “Sticker Shock”. The Obamacare Rollout discusses how the public is upset with the federal government mainly because of the turn out of the Obamacare website. Sticker Shock deals with 100,000’s of people receiving notices that their health plans are being canceled due to Obamacare guidelines when Obama said no such thing would happen. The first top story was about the Obamacare Rollout. When Obamacare became available to the public on October 1st, the website upset many people when over 700,000 applications were filed and no one knows how many people are actually enrolled. Republicans and even Democrats are urging for change. David Gregory invited democratic governor Steven Beshear of Kentucky, and republican governor John Kasich to talk about their health exchanges. Governor Beshear has set up his own health exchange for Kentucky, while governor Kasich declined to do so and the federal government has stepped in to done so. Gregory choosing a democrat and a republican with opposite healthcare exchanges is a very good example of a limited biased situation. The host starts off asking Kasich if he was as frustrated as the public on how Obamacare has started, then he asked the same question to Beshear. Kasich starts to bash Obamacare, completely not answering Gregory’s question. Beshear starts talking about Kentucky’s health exchanges, but wrapped up saying that Obamacare will work out eventually and that the public needs to take a deep breath. That statement kind of confused me because if Beshear actually believed in
Bias is defined as prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group in a way considered to be unfair. Meet the Press is a weekly American news program known to be very non-bias. But with David Gregory, being his 5th consecutive year as moderator, I found that Gregory demonstrated bias during the Sunday episode of Meet the Press. The top stories this episode were the “Obamacare Rollout” and “Sticker Shock”. The Obamacare Rollout discusses how the public is upset with the federal government mainly because of the turn out of the Obamacare website. Sticker Shock deals with 100,000’s of people receiving notices that their health plans are being canceled due to Obamacare guidelines when Obama said no such thing would happen. The first top story was about the Obamacare Rollout. When Obamacare became available to the public on October 1st, the website upset many people when over 700,000 applications were filed and no one knows how many people are actually enrolled. Republicans and even Democrats are urging for change. David Gregory invited democratic governor Steven Beshear of Kentucky, and republican governor John Kasich to talk about their health exchanges. Governor Beshear has set up his own health exchange for Kentucky, while governor Kasich declined to do so and the federal government has stepped in to done so. Gregory choosing a democrat and a republican with opposite healthcare exchanges is a very good example of a limited biased situation. The host starts off asking Kasich if he was as frustrated as the public on how Obamacare has started, then he asked the same question to Beshear. Kasich starts to bash Obamacare, completely not answering Gregory’s question. Beshear starts talking about Kentucky’s health exchanges, but wrapped up saying that Obamacare will work out eventually and that the public needs to take a deep breath. That statement kind of confused me because if Beshear actually believed in