Evaluating media bias
Title:
Evaluating media bias
Author:
Schiffer, Adam Joseph, author.
ISBN:
9781442265653
9781442265660
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
viii, 150 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Abstract:
"Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades, and it features prominently in the post 2016 political conversation. Yet it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Evaluating Media Bias is a brief, supplemental resource that provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Adam Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias debate before highlighting the more consequential shortcomings plaguing American political news. He also takes an in-depth look at the media's role in the 2016 Republican primary and discusses the most notable news controversies that arose in the aftermath of the general election. Engaging and informative, this text reviews what we know about media bias, offers timely case studies as illustration, and introduces an original framework for unifying diverse conversations about the shortcomings of political news"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
1. The enduring "liberal media" charge -- The enduring charge -- The puzzle of persistence -- Types of bias charges -- 2. The scholarly view of partisan bias -- The advantages and challenges of social science -- Baselines and structure -- Bias in election coverage -- Measuring nonelectoral reality -- Breakthroughs in methods and controversy -- Recent innovations -- 3. How to evaluate a bias charge -- Bias charges : easy to make but hard to get right -- Defining bias -- The components of a bias charge : the I-B-E framework -- How to evaluate a bias charge -- 4. The real biases -- A note on standards -- The real biases -- Skewed news judgment -- Limited perspectives -- Informational shortcomings -- 5. Coverage of the Affordable Care Act -- Partisan bias charges -- The real biases -- 6. The media and the 2016 Republican nomination -- The real biases -- The party usually decides -- Trump's dominance of television coverage -- The media's role in Trump's nomination -- 7. Bias, balance, and ideals in the Trump era -- Bias and balance in the 2016 general election -- The enduring importance of nonideological ideals -- Journalists : mind your friends, not the bullies -- Citizens : force the conversation.