"Whoever controlled the press held the best position to control the minds of men." In today's America, I find that we have several similarities between our media coverage now and from the partisan era. Since the increased availability of mass media introduced in the 15th century, political press and agenda has been used to sway the public mind towards one belief or another.
Today, we find ourselves in a more politically divided nation than ever; although not all of us Americans may hold radical leftist or rightist views, we each hold our views strongly and are quick to judge those who oppose us.
Although there are public sources of news and media, you need to have an audience in mind to direct to. People ultimately want to hear what they want to believe, even if that costs some of the truth. News stations which relays true, unbiased information than rather FOX or CNN who give their expected audience exactly what they want to hear. The stories are shifted in such a manner that they alter what the truth is; therefore when politically opposite viewers read or watch a source of media which is not what they are conditioned to, we accuse their truth as fake news.
"Political bias in the media is not a new phenomenon, but the current segregation of the media is dangerously partisan." Although media stations are not directly related or affiliated with one party, the station must gear its news to benefit its viewers in order to become a successful industry.
According to The Atlantic, a 2010 report revealed that our nations involvement in news has began to grow smaller and smaller since 1998; the issue is not only that we are becoming more segregated as a nation, but profoundly less informed due to lack of involvement. This collaboration of inefficiencies cause for individuals to fall for the first thing they hear or want to hear without doing the research.
Truth is relative in the world of media, and partisanship continues to spur the discretion of our nations voters.
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