How To Be Well-Informed

In America, the media plays a tremendous role in society. We use the media in various ways; we use it to obtain new information, stay informed, follow trends, and monitor power of the government. Underneath the media that we all so love are the “well-informed” Journalist and the journalism they partake in. I put well-informed in quotes because they are well, well-informed but simultaneously not well-informed. Journalist are the ones that go on the hunt for the next big story to inform the public about at a rapid pace. Every day the media spews out news whether it’s current, relevant, or continuing on a big story, the media has to do its job instantaneously because it is such a competitive field to participate in. The media is a bitter-sweet
Spin bias is a style of propaganda, it’s commonly known as providing a biased interpretation of an event to persuade public opinion of an issue. It occurs when the story has only one interpretation of an event or policy to the exclusion of the other and it can also involve tone and how the reporter’s subjective comments could potentially affect an objective fact. A clear example of this would be how Fox News covered the Charleston Church massacre on the 17th of June in 2015. Fox News reported saying that Dylan Roof attack was on Christianity, not African Americans. Fox News is known as being a conservative news station, so this news company covering this story like they did in fact did not surprise many. As we hopefully all know now, since Dylan Roof is no doubt number one on the list to be federally executed by the government and currently on death row, that his motives were in fact racially bias. This news company wanted to avoid the whole “hate crime” motive and attempted to push his motives to “attack on christianity”, see the spin. The theory of Dylan Roof attacking “christianity” was short-lived because the media got ahold of his racially motivated manifesto. To be more accurate, Dylan Roof’s manifesto is now open to the public to read and his motives were clear as day. Fox news tried to cover the fact that his motives were racially bias because simply it was “hostility towards christians, and it was in a church, so that’s what it must be about” declared Steve Doocy, an American network- television personality on the Fox News Channel. Steve Doocy was of course wrong, and did not correct himself when the allegations of a racially-motivated manifesto came