For this fourth and finally paper, I am choosing to discuss news biases. Specifically, that news cannot be presented without bias. I am learning a lot about this topic and its larger category, media effects, in my Communications class—the history of media effects as well as different spectrums of effects and how they relate to audiences and different types of personal effects. While we are currently writing a paper on how (and what) different biases are present in certain media clips (as presented in two different articles we have read), I would like to expand upon and twist this argument to look at more news shows and the fact that the biases are not just a negative side-effect/intention of news broadcasting and other journalism, but a necessary factor of news. While I would be using some factors of my Communications paper, this paper will not be the same paper; it will use the same sources and biases/ideas presented from our readings, but in a fashion that does not prove how the biases exist, but rather that the biases exist in such a manner that they warp our understanding of the world (i.e. by what events get covered and which are left aside), yet, ironically, on a pivotal level. A part of this paper will also explore how the presentation of news biases, when trying to be bipartisan, is just as bias, if not more bias that originally depicted. This paper will include multiple, evident close-readings to, hopefully, mitigate pathos and ethos; yet, it may be tricky to completely avoid both pathos and ethos in this discussion and only focus on logos.
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