Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Roy Peter Clark, news guru at the Poynter Institute, says (highlight added):
Some related questions for possible discussion:
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"The public bias against the press is a more serious problem for
American democracy than the bias (real or perceived) of the press
itself.
That is one reasonable conclusion to a study of media credibility
conducted by Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn...."
- Here's Roy's essay in full.
- Here's the Sacred Heart U press release on its media credibility poll.
- Here's the discussion of Roy's essay.
Some related questions for possible discussion:
- How do you decide how much to trust or believe a poll?
- How do you decide how seriously to take an opinion column? Or a news story? Or a Web discussion?
- How do people define "the press" or "the media" or "bias"?
- Do print newspapers, online newspapers and broadcast news all deserve the same criticisms?
- Do "readers" and "TV news viewers" and folks who get most of their news online perceive things the same way?
- Jon Stewart's name came up in class. Watch this interview, in which he and Bill Moyers talk about credibility.
- Go to the Radford University library (online)
- Search the database our library calls "communication & mass media complete" for academic journal articles with "perceptions of news bias" in the title. (EBSCO Host is the database provider.)
- Pick the most recent one
- Look at the other resources the database offers:
- Cited References
- Times cited in this document
- Related search terms
- Broaden the search by removing the word "perception," changing "news" to "journalism," "bias" to "prejudice." See what different results you get.
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