Television Bias

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Most of people believe that television news programs present biased information. On the other hand, there are people who believe that TV news just states the facts, and that it is not biased. These people who believe that TV news states the facts believe whatever they hear and see on TV.

It’s very important to know how news stations can influence their viewers. Postman and Powers give a great example in their “Television News: The Language of Pictures” article. They said, “Consider a film clip showing an aircraft carrier at sea. One might be able to identify the ship as Soviet or American, but there would be no way of telling where in the world the carrier was, where it was headed, or when the pictures were taken. It is only through languageــــwords spoken over the pictures or reproduced in themــــthat the image of the aircraft carrier takes on specific meaning” (Postman and Powers, 2010, p. 218). In the previous example, we can see that whatever the news station mentions about that aircraft carrier, viewers may believe it. It is just because the picture didn’t provide e...

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