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Media Bias: How Much Does It Hurt Or Help The Media-Public Relationship?, Aidan Mathews
Media Bias: How Much Does It Hurt Or Help The Media-Public Relationship?, Aidan Mathews
Journalism
The focus of this research paper is to qualify the relationship between the public and the Media and to discover how much Media bias, or the perception of Media bias affects that relationship. An important angle taken in this study is the question of whether or not bias on the part of the Media actually helps the public when forming educated opinions.
The review of existing literature on Media bias and public perception of the Media and the collection of data via interviews with expert, professional journalists have led to two conclusions about the Media-public relationship: (1) in order for …