Media Bias Analysis

Media bias is when viewers believe that reporters select certain stories to talk about. Dave D’Alessio who did a meta-analysis of nearly one hundred scholarly studies to understand media stated “the subsequent materials argues that media bias is a departure from objectivity that includes the concepts of factuality and impartiality. Yet the account goes on to say that an individual’s perception of media bias is filtered through the prism of subjectivity, making it a complex concept to understand (D’Alessio).” This means that people view media bias because of personal reasons or by what other people in media claims are biased. There have been several studies focusing on media bias over the years. “A 2012 study by Americans for Democratic Action
We find a significant effect of the introduction of Fox News on the vote share in Presidential elections between 1996 and 2000. Republicans gained 0.4 to 0.7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News. Fox News also affected voter turnout and the Republican vote share in the Senate. Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure (DellaVigna).” It is to believe that Fox News is biases towards Republicans by the findings in this
She found that from Sept. 16 to Election Day in 1968, ABC dispensed 7,493 words "against" the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon, and 896 words "for" -- an 8-to-1 ratio. NBC's word count was 4,334 against and 431 for (10-to-1). CBS was the most biased, dishing out 5,300 words against and 320 for -- a 16-to-1 ratio of bad press to good. Meanwhile, the liberal Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey, was the subject of more positive words and was consequently treated more fairly (How media bias colors the news).” This study agrees with the previous that ABC is not the show that is biased towards Republicans. It claims that the most biased is CBS but it only gave options for ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly news shows.
A study done by CASS (Contrast Analysis of Semantic Similarity) stated “by analyzing television transcripts from cable news from a 12-month period, we reveal significant differences in political bias between television channels (liberal to conservative: MSNBC, CNN, Fox News) and find expected differences between newscasters (Colmes, Hannity). Compared to existing measures of media bias, our measure has higher reliability. (Holtzman).” This study agrees with the others that Fox News is more conservative. By being conservative means that they are more biased towards