Evaluating Media Bias
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072Z1YPLN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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(David Niven, University of Cincinnati) . He lets the evidence guide his conclusions instead of the other way around. On a topic usually discussed with the volume and clarity of a two year-old throwing a tantrum, Adam Schiffer has brought forth an essential work, both readable and rigorous. Exploring not only bias in the media but also the ill-considered possibility of fairness, Schiffer does something rarely seen amongst those evaluating the media
Adam Schiffer is associate professor of political science at TCU. . He studies American politics and teaches courses on political communication, public opinion, and research methods. He has published on topics such as the role of social media in the 2012 presidential election, the ability of blogs to set the mainstream press' agenda, partisan bias in newspaper election coverage, and ideological self-identification
Adam Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias debate before pivoting to real biases: the patterns, constraints, and shortcomings plaguing American political news. 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. Yet, it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades and it features prominently in the post-2016 political conversation. Media bias is more relevant than ever in the aftermath of the presidential election, which launched a flurry of media criticism from scholars, commentators, and thoughtful news professionals.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 this topic that is the subject of so much ire in our country. Evaluating Media Bias allows students of American politics, and politically aware citizens alike, the means of detecting and evaluating bias for themselves, and thus join the national conversation about the state of American news media.