Abstract
The paper explains how Plato's cave allegory in "The Republic" provides a symbolic view of the way media distorts the truth. The paper discusses how the neo-conservative religious values of American journalism are often far from the truth. The paper shows how this reveals a politically subjective media elite system that generates information benefiting fundamentalist American elites.

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"In the Republic, Plato's Cave Allegory is a lesson in the fundamental principles of perception and knowledge that Plato imparts on the reader. In the first stage, the prisoners in the story have been chained to a cave since birth, and have no idea as to what is real and what is not. Behind the prisoners there are fires that project shadows on the wall of the cave, which represent a mere replica of reality. In the second stage, the prisoner was to escape and see the fire, he or she would be blinded. Furthermore, if the prisoner was taken up to the sunlight, they would also be blinded by the "truth" that would be invariably too bright for them to survive. The third stage has the prisoner returning to the cave simply because he or she cannot possibly comprehend the absolute "truth" because it is incomprehensible to the human mind and its faculties."

Tags:religion, values, fundamentalists, elites, truth, propaganda, corporations

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In this paper, the presence of a religiously-based political conservative elite in America is often empowered through a propagandistic corporate mass media system. Oftentimes, the complexity of political and religious views of the War on Terror mask the real truth about war profiteering that disguise the secular political views for war-profiteering and American control of natural resources in the Middle East. Plato's "Cave Allegory" provides a symbolic view of the way media distorts the truth through a cooperative corporate consolidation that aligns its ideology with what may be broadly termed a "neo-conservative" consolidation of media bias.

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"This philosophical study will analyze the various aspects of knowledge defined in Plato's "Cave Allegory" in relation to the conservative modern media. In many ways, the neo-conservative religious values of American journalism are often far from the truth, revealing a politically subjective media elite system that generates information that benefits fundamentalist American elites. In this regard, the ethical aspect of journalism that seeks knowledge for the ruling few is directly related to the various illusions of reality and illusion that are part of the Cave..."

Tags:plato, cave, media

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This paper explores the myriad of ways in which media bias in the United States and the United Kingdom can affect the manner in which specific news events are conveyed. The author uses the Israeli fence as an example of this bias, with news stories from the US and UK cited throughout.

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"The oft-cited special relationship that exists between the United States and the United Kingdom infers an ideological common bond, a cultural cohesiveness and a political partnership that is supposed to transcend petty misunderstandings and trans-Atlantic ..."

Tags:Israel, Palestine, Media, bias, fence, unilateral disengagement, jewish state, Sharon, Arafat

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This paper addresses the bias that has long existed in the American news media concerning the treatment of the countries of Palestine and Israel according to recent events in the Middle East.

Tags:COMMUNICATION STUDIES / MASS MEDIA RELATIONS, THEORY, POLITICS, media bias isreal

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The issue to be discussed is whether the media coverage of the first war between the United States and Saddam Hussein's Iraq was biased. The related question is whether this bias was pro-American government or anti-American government. The Iraqi media coverage, under an absolute dictatorship, favored their cause and the leadership of Saddam Hussein.

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C25659 March 10, 2009 Media Bias in the 1991 United States - Iraq War The issue to be discussed is whether the media coverage of the first war between the United States and Saddam Hussein's Iraq was biased. The related question is whether this bias was pro-American government or anti-American government. The Iraqi media coverage, under an absolute dictatorship, favored their cause and the leadership of Saddam Hussein. It was not considered at all objective, or a good reflection of the Iraqi people views.

Tags:iraq, vietnam, media

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This paper explains that bias is an endemic and unavoidable part of the newsgathering and reportage process, especially in the area of racial bias. The author points out that advertising, another area in which the media can have a profound influence on public opinion, has achieved the status of a carefully crafted art form whose message can have a negative effect on individuals and society because of selected bias. The paper relates that some of the ways in which bias is influencing public opinion are (1) disguising opinions as news by using loaded language and well-portioned adverbs or adjectives and (2) providing selective content by failing to give proper context and full background information, which distorts the true picture.

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"While the most extreme form of media bias in shaping public opinion is propaganda, the most infamous use of the media influencing public opinion was no doubt the way in which the Nazis influenced the German public. However, there are many instances in the contemporary world where media bias, which tends towards propaganda, is prevalent. The political manipulation of pubic onion is known as propaganda. An example of the way in which the media can influence public perception through suggesting a sense of legitimacy is through polling and a constant stream of subjective media reports. The method of influencing the public is termed self-fulfilling polling."

Tags:propaganda, racial, language, selective, distortion

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This mass media paper provides educational an analysis that reflects on how American newspapers and journals reflect a distinct bias towards the latter aspects of Mao's government in 1970. While Mao sought to create a communist society that forced the once privileged members of the "intellectual" community to learn the value of hard labor, the primacy of American bias in the media arises in Durdin's focus on the militarism and forced labor movements of Mao's policy organization.

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Tags:militancy, mao, education

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The aim of this paper is to bring forth the views of Aristotle and Plato to analyze the current issues of bias and objectivity that exist within the cultural construct of journalism and the modern media. By evaluating the issues of rhetoric as put forth by Plato and Aristotle, the paper shows how one can realize the often-tainted perspective for truth within the institutional nationalism and capitalism of modern media corporations.

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"The philosophy of Plato is far more abstract than that of Aristotle, since it focuses more on the forms of higher understanding and the greater good. The term rhetoric was often not a complimentary word for Plato, as he often saw language and knowledge being used on a relativistic basis for the well being of those that sought to profit from non-virtuous political or social means. Often the lack of uniformity in defining what is the "greater good" in society is difficult, since the intellectual virtue discussed by Aristotle can often provide an abstract and often unrealistic set of ethical guidelines. "

Tags:propaganda, knowledge, capitalism

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In this paper, the philosophical principles of Aristotle and Plato are analyzed in relation to the growing conflict of bias and objectivity in modern journalism. The writer discusses that the growing capitalistic tendencies of the 20th and 21st century American news service is the direct result of massive privatized corporations holding a monopoly over objective reporting and news presentation. The writer notes that often, the examples of the War in Iraq provide key points in the way that news coverage provides a moral based virtue that strays the from the academic intellectual virtue that Aristotle discusses in his Nicomachean ethics.

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"The aim of this philosophical study will bring forth the views of Aristotle and Plato to analyze the current issues of bias and objectivity that exist within the cultural construct of journalism and the modern media. By evaluating the issues of rhetoric as put forth by Plato and Aristotle, one can realize the often-tainted perspective for truth within the institutional nationalism and capitalism of modern media corporations. In this manner, the issue of ethics arises within an Aristotelian format that defines how journalism can be perceived trough intellectual virtues ..."

Tags:journalism