Submitted by christian on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 10:05
Media bias is an important part of our lives, and recognizing it helps people deal with it and prevent it from influencing their decisions to too great of a degree. It is important to examine cases where bias occurs so people can develop an understanding of how it can manifest itself. One especially pertinent case to the discussion of media bias is elections. During elections people must vote based on their knowledge of candidates, and much of this knowledge comes from the mass media. The knowledge that voters' gain of candidates can be skewed by media bias; but, this bias can manifest itse
