Friday, February 27, 2009

Media bias

Media bias is directly protrayed in the articles of two canadian news papers. In 1916, 'The Montreal Matin' and 'Toronto Times' expressed their opinions on Sir Sam Hughes, the minister of Militia. The Montreal Matin Titled their article as, "Hughes Fired From Cabinet", where the Toronto Times titled thier article, "Sir Sam Steps Down!" The Montreal Matin called Hughes incompetent and antagonizing. They displayed him as a selfish French hating, Englishing loving minister who treated the French Canadians poorly.

Another example of bias writing is Aljazeera.net, writtin in Pakistan, and tells a different story than the article written in America. Aljazeera.net wrote "US drone' in fatal Pakistan raid" and lists that 27 people have been killed in the missile attack by the US drone in a tribal district of Pakistan. The american Article is titled, "Suspected US drone strikes Taliban Target in Pakistin", and had listed that 12 people were killed. This shows how different the information verys and sways personal opinions. There is wrong information givin and truth gets lost between the opinions.

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