The Credibility Of The Media Bias

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We rely on the media for a lot of news and current events. Some news channels and reporter are consistently more reliable than others, and it is hard to determine which one is more credible than the other. All the news sources are so competitive they want to publish the story as soon as they get the information even if it is not accurate or complete. Eighty-two percent of Americans believe that the crime reported based on what is viewed on the news and the other seventeen percent is their lifestyle (Bohm, & Haley, 2012). These are the unbalanced reports from the media that we have to choose from when we want to know about the local and worldwide news. Sometimes the story is so repetitious that we get tired of seeing and hearing the same thing

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