Of course it is biased!
Fox News is well known for their right wing views of political controversy. Though the information is clearly targeting the decline as Obama as a president and the future of him as a potential candidate for the next election, it brings up some interesting points which should be addressed.
According to the survey, 54 percent think the president is unlikely to recover from his setbacks.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/06/confidence-in-obama-slipping-to-new-lows-as-campaign-season-ramps-up/#ixzz1X9ZGHBlr
This survey was conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
The same poll showed Obama's overall approval at 44 percent, and his approval on the economy at 37 percent. Worse, only 19 percent think the country is going in the right direction. It's the lowest rating yet for a president who galvanized an historic coalition of supporters on a message of hope for America.
-Foxnews.com
Based off these statistics, Obama is clearly on the decline in American's hearts and most hope has been eliminated from people's mindsets as Obama promised more than he could deliver.
An interesting thought I'd like to point out is that Foxnews.com is using statistics from other sites almost as if they aren't being biased, but don't be fooled. It is clever, but not overlooked by many readers that Foxnews.com chooses only bad statistics about Obama to bring an impression to their articles that Obama is failing extremely hard in all aspects.
Based off the Huffington Post's article regarding Obama, they both completely agree that Obama's future doesn't have much 'Hope' to back it up. Like Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post uses other sources statistics and graphs to back up their story without a Biased interpretation from the readers. One can assume that if positive polls came out about Obama that the Huffington Post would share this information while Fox News would hide it or distort it for the readers of their respects sites.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/06/confidence-in-obama-slipping-to-new-lows-as-campaign-season-ramps-up/
and
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/06/obama-polls-congress-all-time-lows_n_950521.html?1315329758
As you can see by the titles; Confidence in Obama Slipping to New Lows as Campaign Season Ramps Up (Foxnews.com) and Obama Polls Congress All Time Lows (Thehuffingtonpost.com). Indubitably, it is clear the their is a negative connotation from Foxnews.com's perspective and a rather unbiased perception of the event from Thehuffingtonpost.com's perspective. Fox uses words such as confidence and slipping, while Huffington just spits the facts.
Both Posts share the same information, but the wording and perception both posts share are skewed differently. Hopefully for Obama's sake he can find a way out of this predicament or it is now looking too good for him.
Adam,
ReplyDeleteI find this post hard to follow. It is also missing the contrast you were supposed to have using THREE media outlets ( not just FoxNews and Huffington Post) and your discussion of which one you'd trust the most after this exercise.
My suggestions for future analytical assignments like this would be:
1. Though it is a blog, clearly think out your text organization and writing before posting. You might even ask someone to give you feedback before or after posting (you can revise posts on Blogger), but before I grade them. Words or missing in some sentences here; others are sloppy and don't make sense.
2. Be sure to clearly state what you are evaluating and to summarize at top your major findings. For example, you start out by saying:
Fox News is well known for their right wing views of political controversy. Though the information is clearly targeting the decline as Obama as a president and the future of him as a potential candidate...
But a reader (like me) wonders WHAT information are you talking about? WHAT did Fox have to do with it? In other words, what was the "news" you evaluated, when was it released and how did each media weigh in on it?
3. Make sure you address all the questions/requirements in the assignment. This was about evaluating three different media takes on the same story, and you only covered two. You also didn't address the last assignment question.