The Nature of Television News Bias According to White (1950), "media bias is disputable in the absence of certain properties of that bias: It must be volitional, or willful: it must be influential or else it is irrelevant; it must be threatening to widely held conventions, least it be dismissed as mere "crackpotism"; and it must be sustained rather than an isolated incident." Ideological bias in television news meets all of White's criteria, and has attracted the most public interest and attention (Kaid, Tesdesco & McKinnon, 2000). ... The liberal argues that the liberal writers and ...

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The black people in South Africa were discriminated publicly. ... The black people were standing up to the government, which was at the time mostly made up of white people. ... During the course of the movement the black people campaigned for the release of non-white people detained without trial and many more to do with the unfair treatment of the black citizens. ... A government that does not reflect the will of the people must be removed from power. ... Those in power who do not reflect the will of the people must be removed from that power. ...

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They viewed that a big government will help protect the freedom that people enjoy... The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. ... The United States vowed to support any peoples anywhere if they were fighting communism, this was established in the Truman Doctrine... He wanted to make sure he "delivered concrete things to people, not abstract principles"(Schulman 41)... (17) The African American leaders were insulted because they said the Report saw black families as unstable, and it viewed white families as "normal" an...

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In Ireland history has everything to do with the political views people hold and has contributed to both the political culture and political system in a major way. ... It would be too black-and-white to just insist that Ireland's political system is solely shaped by the people and represents their views on politics. ... It has the ability to influence people's opinions which then form the political culture. ... This socio- economic change has seen people becoming wealthier, concentrated in cities, and the dramatic decline of farming and the agricultural way of life. ... New trends an...

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Whether Paine expected his writing to have influenced people to this degree, the result is that it did. ... People had begun regulating the notion yet expanding it so that their lives are better according to them individually. ... Therefore, according to this right, people are free to do as they pleased except for slaves. ... Women's suffrage rests on the same basis as that of African Americans just as black men's suffrage rests on the same basis as that of white men; suffrage is a universal concept whereby everyone has a right to vote. ... Douglass refuses to acknowledge this ...

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