Do you think the media shows political bias in its portrayal of political parties?

Considering the media is a business listed on the stock market do you think many of the views it presents show this bias.|||does it ever!!!!"





However its important to break down that conept 'the media'





There are several stations on radio and TV, and in the press (then in all the websites they generate) which are not completely dominated by a rightwing bias..





Nevertheless the dominant (in terms of ratings/media power) do tend to support the business end of town.





Fox especailly.





However even there its important to point out that


-sometimes it's in Rupert's interests to support what are usually seen as political parties of the the left.


-that its not so much in the direct invective towards anything to the left of Genghis Khan - but in the choice of


a) what is chosen as the key news items


b) what is omitted


c) the dumbing down of any debate into ':us the good guys /them the bad guys'


d) the language and the mode of presentation





That the long term of effects of the bias to the powerful operates towards a fairly crude 'right wing ' construction of 'the world out there'





There are many media studies of the bias towards the 'right'. Among them the work of :





-George Lakoff who tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics


http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/relea鈥?/a>


-the BCCCS (the Birimingham Centre of Cultural Studies ) especially when Stuart Hall was its Director.


-Galtung and Ruges model of 'news values'


http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcsenews.htm鈥?/a>





-other individual studies eg


a) http://www.nber.org/papers/w12169





b) http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs鈥?/a>





and for a more nuanced disucssion and research study into the effects of the spread of news media sources


c)


http://learning.nwc.hccs.edu:8080/Plone/鈥?/a>








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