Sonja Steinle
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Professor Chris Kennedy
RW 2014
Third Assignment
Topic
Media Bias in the news
Purpose
Media bias is a problem that has been bothering and affecting people everyday. Especially now, where Thailand’s current political situation has been a subject in the media all around the world, it has often been reported about it with biased viewpoints in foreign countries. I believe that it’s important to provide people with information from an unbiased point of view, so that everyone has the chance to form their own opinion. So, I would like to focus on the effects this media bias has on Thai people as well as on foreigners, the problems it causes, the influence of Thai culture and history on Thailand’s current situation and what
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First, Thai culture and history is not taught in schools in Europe. In history class, students are taught about the most important events in world history that occurred in the past including the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the Egypt's contribution to mathematics and Geometry, the Creation of the Rome, the unification of Ancient China as well as World War 1 and 2. However, Thai history and culture are not related to any of these events. Second, if a person is not particularly interested in Thailand and its culture and history, he or she will most likely not hear or see much about it on the radio or television. News about Thailand that are broadcasted in foreign countries usually don’t include too much details or the influence of Thai culture and history on an issue. The only opportunity for foreigners to actually learn more about Thai culture and history is to go on a trip to Thailand to make their own experiences or to learn more about it by watching documentaries about Thai culture and history. Foreigners certainly do have some knowledge about Asian countries’ culture and history; nevertheless, it is very limited and surely not enough to fully understand …show more content…
However, this article in particular seems to be a little biased. Also, more current and unbiased information could be obtained by further research.
Schulze, Katrin. "Eskalation Des Konflikts : „Thailand Ist Nah Dran Am Bürgerkrieg""Eskalation Des Konflikts: „Thailand Ist Nah Dran Am Bürgerkrieg" Der Tagesspiegel, 10 Jan. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.
Evaluation: The source seems to be only partially credible. It was published on the website of a well known German newspaper company. Also, the information has been mostly obtained by primary research. However, the information seems to be a little biased and over the top.
"Thailand Protests: 5 Things to Know." CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.
Evaluation: The source seems to be only partially credible since most of the information has been obtained by primary research, but no author is mentioned. Also, the article has been published on the website of the CBS, an American commercial broadcast television network, therefore the information might not be as reliable as others. Nevertheless, in this article there seems to be no
The usage of media is huge in nowadays. People rely on different kinds of media to receive information in their everyday life because they are thirsty for the diverse and informative content. However, inaccurate portrayals of people from different races always appear in the media and audience will exaggerate those portrayals by their inflexible beliefs and expectations about the characteristics or behaviors of the portrayals’ cultural groups without considering individual variation (Ting-Toomey and Chung, 2012); in fact, it is also called as stereotypes. According to a study by the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University (Stein, 2012), racial stereotyping continues to occur in media and the mainstream media's coverage of different cultural groups is full of biased reporting, offensive terminology and old stereotypes of American society. It specifically emphasizes that majority of the stereotyped characters in media will only bring out the dark side of their cultural groups which many of them might not be true, especially for the portrayals of black community: African American.
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398).It is also stated that news divisions reduced their costs, and raised the entertainment factor of the broadcasts put on air. (p. 400). Secondly, the media determines its sources for stories by putting the best journalists on the case and assign them to areas where news worthy stories just emanates. (p.400). Third, the media decides how to present the news by taking the most controversial or relevant events and compressing them into 30 second sound-bites. (p.402). finally, the authors also explain how the media affects the general public. The authors’ state “The effect of one news story on public opinion may be trivial but the cumulative effect of dozens of news stories may be important. This shows a direct correlation between public opinions and what the media may find “relevant”. (Edwards, Wattenberg, Lineberry, 2015, p.
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...the data did not involve member checking thus reducing its robustness and enable to exclude researcher’s bias. Although a constant comparative method was evident in the discussion which improved the plausibility of the final findings. Themes identified were well corroborated but not declared was anytime a point of theoretical saturation Thus, the published report was found to be particularly strong in the area of believability and dependability; less strong in the area of transferability; and is weak in the area of credibility and confirmability, although, editorial limitations can be a barrier in providing a detailed account (Craig & Smyth, 2007; Ryan, Coughlan, & Cronin, 2007).
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