Media(summary response)

Although it is the goal of journalism to be impartial to ideology and remain unbiased , more often than not , journalist 's attitudes are clearly seen in the way they report the news . It is up to the individual reader to decide the merits of the articles they are reading and decide which deals more in reality and which is more ideologically driven . The two essays about to be discussed , one from Fox News and the other from AlterNet , illustrate an example of what it means for the reader to take responsibility for where

(s )he get their news . The first article Bush Gives Examples of Progress ' is obviously ideologically driven toward making the readership see the President and his administration in better light . The article bashes the American press , saying they are not telling the whole story ' of Iraq . They believe the media is focusing on all the negative happenings in Iraq and not focusing on any positive . Fox News then cites poll numbers of American 's withering support for the war as evidence of this bias . It is interesting to note however , that Fox News is the most watched 24-hour news network in the country . It seems that if Fox was correct in the analysis of their article , most American 's would be in support of the war however , this is not the case

In the second article , Bush Bombs ' the author , Robert Scheer makes the case that what Bush said in the run up to the war and what he is saying now , conflict . In the beginning of the article , for instance , he quotes an elderly gentleman that points out to Bush that all of his main reasons for going to war , Saddam 's ties to Al Queda , WMD 's , and the alleged purchase by Iraq of nuclear materials from Niger all turned out to be false . Scheer then goes on to explain that audio tapes , proving Saddam no longer had WMD 's , were found and even though the Bush administration knew about this , they still were telling the same lies to the American People . Scheer then concludes by explaining that President Bush had access to all the same intelligence information as did the September 11th Commission , which found that Iraq had no ties to Al Queda , thus implying that President Bush was lying to the American pubic

For myself , whenever I see something on Fox News , I immediately question it . If they are saying it is Tuesday , I immediate run to the nearest calendar . They are not at all a good source of information and have routinely been deceiving the American public for many years . The quality of debate on their news network is horrible , inviting far-right guests , who always get to finish their point , to debate , at best centrists whom they label liberal ' and who rarely ever finish speaking before interrupted . Besides this , a poll conducted by the Program on International Policy , found that there were significant misperceptions in the American public after the invasion of Iraq . The poll found that of all the respondents , those who regularly got their news from Fox , 80 percent had incorrect assumptions about Iraq and the reasons for us going there . It is shameful that an organization that prides itself on being Fair and Balanced ' can mislead the American public to this extent (Misperceptions , Media , and the Iraq War

Of the two articles , the one by Robert Scheer definitely holds more merit . Although both of the articles are driven by ideology , the Fox News article relies on faulty information (such as the polling I have already discussed , and basing the entire argument of bias in the media on one exception in Iraq that of the progress of democracy ' made in Tal Afar . In the same article , this exception is acknowledged by President Bush himself as not an accurate of what is overall happening in Iraq . The Scheer article , even though it too is ideologically driven , relies on hard facts and basis its arguments on those . In the article , Scheer quotes Bush both before and after the war and shows that he is being inconsistent with his statements . He also relies on information about the tapes found which show the Bush knew in that Saddam had no WMD 's , even thought he was telling the public otherwise to get them to support the war . Fox News should being taking notes

Works Citied

Bush gives examples of progress (2006 . Fox News . Retrieved Apr 03 2006 , from http /www .foxnews .com /story /0 ,2933 ,188401 ,00 .html

Misperceptions , the media , and the Iraq war (n .d . Retrieved Apr . 03 2006 , from http /www .worldpublicopinion .org /pipa /articles /international_security_b t /102 .php ?nid id pnt 102 Scheer , R (2006 . Bush bombs . AlterNet . Retrieved Apr 03 , 2006 , from http /www .alternet .org /story /33904 ...