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 Bias In the Media Complete Democratic Bias: media type="youtube" key="IjBnRxidMvQ" height="364" width="445" This video is extreme bias towards the democrats, and president Obama. The clip shows Obama talking to world powers and riding in helicopters, while it also shows senator McCain knocking over jars of applesauce. Just the tone in the newscaster's voice is making Obama sound like the next president before the election, and making McCain sound like a joke.

Slight Democratic Bias: media type="custom" key="3518760" This video is not as discreet as the slight republican bias clip, but to the every day "not looking for bias" watcher, its practically see through. The video just fact checks a quote from Governor Palin about Obama.

Bias that could be argued either way (closer to the center of the aisle).

Time Magazine Articles. March 30 Issue. Page 23. "In the Arena" Klein, Joe. In this article, Joe Klein talks about how people are panicking too much when it comes to Obama's new stimulus program, and how we are not going to see instant results. Now, this could be argued that this is a democratic biased article, telling people that Obama is doing the right thing, and that it is all going to work out in the end. While it could be argued that way, the article is written fairly objectively and does not really ever mention anything bad about the republicans and their bailout, or come right out and say "Obama is the American economy's savior" like many news outlets seemingly do.

"How AIG Became Too Big to FAIL" Saporito, Bill. This was one of the most unbiased and well written articles that I have found in Time magazine. The article described how AIG got into the hole that they are in, and why they probably wont be able to get out. Not once did they mention either party being at fault, or mention either of the bail-out plans in a dark light. They placed the blame solely on AIG, not on the government. They basically looked at the situations like, "Well, this is the hole that they are in, and this is why", and there was hardly any bias at all.



CSPAN "Q & A part. 2" 3-22-09. This program was a question and answer session between two members of the CSPAN reporting team. They were talking about Senator Ted Stevens and his trial/indictment for non-disclosure of gifts that he received while in office. The two reporters on the show were extremely objective, and they did not ever make Stevens a representative for the whole Republican party. They did not throw in other's names; such as Sarah Palin, who, during the election, had her name thrown in with Stevens on multiple occasions, just for the sake of bad press.

media type="custom" key="3518510" -This video talks very objectively about the upcoming votes on the banks and toxic assets. There are never any claims of "wrongdoings" by either president Obama, or former president Bush. MSNBC is one of the most unbiased news channels on cable, and they very rarely pick a side, or slander one of the parties. The channel never placed the blame on anybody but the banks.

Slight Republican Bias: media type="youtube" key="wFISGhIXDaw" height="295" width="480"

As it is stated in this video, it is not perfectly clear if the video is bashing democrats or not. Most of the time on Fox News and their affiliates, democratic policy bashing is a sport. In this clip, information is falsely represented, and, to the naked eye, may be unnoticeable. The slight bias is actually very clear when you are specifically sniffing it out.

Complete Republican Bias: media type="youtube" key="wZJeeJ1PMNE" height="315" width="500" Fox News claims to be "fair & balanced"...... not so much, and it is very easy to recognize. They place Al Franken's face in with a montage of politicians involved in scandals. Fox news is almost never "fair & balanced" like they claim, and general are completely and utterly biased towards republicans.