Abstract
This paper analyzes whether network news has a liberal bias. More specifically, it tries to explain a relationship between the content of network news and its particular inclination to liberal views. The paper examines the research methodology used to analyze the hypotheses that the author puts forward regarding network news and its views and describes how the methodology can be improved.

Outline:
Introduction
Research Methodology: Alternatives, Optimal Choice, and the Rationale
Validity and Robustness of the Model

From the Paper
"It would also be beneficial to test sub-hypotheses that support the main hypothesis so as to understand if the data is given contradictory results. For example, the main hypothesis is testing whether network news has a liberal bias. Sub-hypotheses can measure specific liberal biases, such as the treatment of the war on Iraq, views about social security or taxes in general, and opinions on leadership in the country. If the main hypothesis is tested and it is proven that there is a liberal bias, then these sub-hypotheses, should also slant towards a liberal view on network news, if not, then the main hypothesis is not supported and may need another methodological approach."

Tags:methodology, qualitative, quantitative, media

Abstract
This paper analyzes network news reports on current affairs, international issues, and other activities that are delivered via local news networks, further investigating whether they have a liberal bias. Specifically, the hypothesis attempts to explain a relationship between the content of network news and its particular inclination to liberal views.

From the Paper
"Network news refers to reports on current affairs, international issues, and other activities that are delivered via broadcast news networks. Common examples include the CBS Evening News, ABC World News, and so on. The hypothesis being tested is whether network news has a liberal bias. To be more specific, the hypothesis is trying to explain a relationship between the content of network news and it particular inclination to liberal views. Network news is a social activity that has very strong political..."

Tags:liberal, network, news

Abstract
The paper examines network television comprised of ABC, CBS and NBC and cable network providers including CNN, FOX News and Comedy Central's Daily Show. The paper also looks at newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in order to assess each of these news outlet's coverage during the 2008 election. The paper reveals that television networks appear to be the most biased and lacking in journalistic ethics, cable television networks are less biased, while newspapers adhere the most to journalistic ethical standards. The writer would choose to access a combination of social networking sites including Twitter, RSS Feeds from all major news networks and newspapers, and television coverage from CNN to gain an overall interpretation of events that is more balanced, with greater potential of seeing divergent views.

Outline:
Introduction
Assessing Network Television
Assessing National Newspapers
Assessing Cable Networks
Summary

From the Paper
"Beginning with an assessment of ABC, CBS and NBC and assessing the extent to which each of these three networks concentrate on responding to the public's interest by abiding by journalistic standards, this group was by far the most biased in their reporting of political, economic and entertainment news. A portion of this assignment was completed during the week of the Republication National Convention (RNC) when Sarah Palin was announced as the Vice Presidential running. Despite being politically independent in terms of ideology, the bias against Mrs. Palin was palpable. The network political analysts often degraded their analysis into the personal issues of Sarah Palin, completely irrelevant to news analysis and unbiased coverage. The immediacy of the television medium often leads to incomplete and often fragmented analysis of complex issues (Cooper, 2004)."

Tags:media, bias, sensationalism, coverage

Abstract
The paper first discusses the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) and how it is free from any commercial influences of advertisers and investors, thus allowing it to address issues in a free and professionally unbiased way. The paper then focuses on CNN in the United States that is a profit driven company that must adhere to the desires of its investors as well as the voices of its viewers, and notes the controversy of CNN's live news coverage. The paper then turns to the Al-Jazeera network founded in Qatar and its controversies. The paper compares how these three international news media sources cover the United States led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how their differences are also illustrated in their coverage of the 2000 United States presidential elections. The paper points out the biases that influence the content and delivery of news reports and relates that even the BBC have been accused of not providing the most in-depth information possible.

From the Paper
"The advent of international news coverage changed the ways in which news was shared, as well as its content. News companies such as CNN and BBC offer international coverage of world events--however these come from different cultures, and therefore have different points of view. In the past year, the Arabic news station Al-Jazeera has taken to broadcasting their news coverage in English; thereby opening their viewership to a far wider audience. This has also opened the American viewing public to an opposing view on the war in Iraq. With the current combination of news coverage offered to the Western World, there is now more opportunity to gain perspective on not only the events which are shaping our world, but also on the manner in this events are viewed, understood and reported."

Tags:media, reporting, bias, content, delivery, Iraq, war, election

Abstract
This paper explains that David Mindich,in "Tuned Out: Why Americans under 40 Don't Follow the News," accuses the generations under forty for threatening American democracy because they don't read newspapers or even watch TV news and thus do not feel sufficiently motivated to vote. The author points out that Mindich's condemnation of young people not watching the news like their grandparents do implies that network news is a gold standard of quality, free of the reductionism or bias of other media; but Mindich criticizes network news for becoming entertainment-oriented news. The paper questions Mindich discounting the Internet as a source of news because, based on his survey, the news is not the prime reason for an individual's Internet use. The paper concludes that this way of thinking is as faulty as discounting television as a news source because the "greatest generation" bought their first television to watch 'I Love Lucy' rather than to watch the evening news.

From the Paper
"The author's discounting of the Internet is in fact somewhat baffling. A college student talking to an old high school friend through Instant Messaging may send that friend a copy of an interesting article that flashed across the screen. News may not be prime reason for using the Internet but still the Internet is vital for transmitting news and opinion, even of dispatches from war torn areas, or disaster afflicted zones where the conventional media cannot penetrate. In ages past, sitting around the television watching the news may have had other purposes than information-family togetherness, relaxation, as well, but that did not discount the information received."

Tags:democracy, internet, television, family, entertainment

Abstract
This five page paper examines news media bias. The paper argues that in recent years, the news media in the United States has become biased and self-serving to such an extent that they can no longer be trusted to be fair and objective. The paper specifically mentions media bias with regards to the Bush administration, Abu Ghraib, and government incompetence in regard to the economy, deficits, and the war in Iraq.

From the Paper
"Our News Media: Reliable or Biased? In recent years, the news media in the United States has become biased and self-serving to such an extent that they can no longer be trusted to be fair and objective. The dearth of objective news coverage about pervasive Bush Administration deceit and corruption, Abu Ghraib and related torture scandals, and criminal government incompetence in regard to the economy, deficits, and the war in Iraq demonstrates that the news media can justifiably be accused of being a propaganda tool for the Republican Party and the corporate establishment. Since the early nineteen-nineties, the electronic news media has relentless promoted the Republican Party and the corporate establishment and denigrated their critics."

Tags:news, media, bias

Abstract
This paper considers the issue of bias in the media comparing Fox News with CNN, with a focus on the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Judge Alito appointment to the Supreme Court.

From the Paper
"Is there bias in the news media? A general impression is that the media itself touts a liberal bias in the broadcast television and print media and a conservative bias on talk radio. The question is ..."

Tags:bias, journalism, journalism, media, fox news, cnn, Hurricane Katrina

Abstract
This paper discusses the problems of objectivity and bias in the media. It claims that the media cannot live up to the journalistic ideal of objectivity, for every news story is influenced by the attitudes and background of its interviewers, writers, photographers and editors. The paper contends that major newspapers and television networks are biased according to their political affiliations and attempt to influence their audiences to subscribe to their views. The paper concludes that the media is no more than a form of propaganda and a cancer inside of the public.

From the Paper
"The media most clearly acts on their political party "affiliation." The main contenders for this are Fox News and the New York Times. The most recent evidence of this is concerning a website release of Iraqi nuclear documents. In an article published by the New York Times on November 3, Journalist William Broad writes, "American government shuts down Web site that weapons experts say offer basic guide to building atom bomb, pending review; site gives detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research before 1991 Persian Gulf war... hoping to leverage the Internet to find new evidence of prewar dangers posed to Saddam Hussein" (Broad)."

Tags:news, bias, leak, scandal

Abstract
The paper discusses how in the print media, newspapers and staffs are shrinking, and religious news simply is not a priority. The paper also notes that cable networks now have arisen which are faith-based.

From the Paper
"Religious news in mainstream media is losing its importance because readership and ad revenue no longer support religious news. There are several reasons why religion is either under-reported or ignored in today's media. First, except for certain religious-faith-based publications, such as the Catholic Commonwealth, there continues to be less reader or viewer/listener support for religious news. Second, cable networks now have arisen which are faith-based. Pat Robertson's is one such example. There are other "sponsored" cable casts which feature well-known as well as off-shoot preachers, usually asking for donations..."

Tags:journalistic bias, media criticism, shrinking kedia