Filtering the mass media: Bias Collection Sites and online political news

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" Filtering the mass media: Bias Collection Sites and online political news "
Jason W. Sternberg K. O. Ferris

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54922
Doc. No	:	TL24876
Call number	:	‭1460957‬
Main Entry	:	Jason W. Sternberg
Title & Author	:	Filtering the mass media: Bias Collection Sites and online political news\ Jason W. Sternberg
College	:	Northern Illinois University
Date	:	2008
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2008
Page No	:	63
Abstract	:	The Internet allows political agents to filter and redistribute the political news of the day to counter the perceived bias they see in the mass media. Bias Collection Sites are one avenue that political agents use to present their filtered version of the news of the day. In this study, I examine how two bias collection sites, commondreams.org and rightwingnews.com, used the already produced news to discuss immigration, environmental issues, and the Iraq War during January 2007. What emerges from my analysis is four distinct ways each side discusses the issues I selected. My analysis reveals that political agents select and manipulate self-serving news stories to reaffirm their already existing political standpoints. The broader explications of my study are that despite the dominate structure of the media. Personal agency can subvert the larger structure of the media.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Sociology; Mass communications; 0708:Mass communications; 0626:Sociology
Added Entry	:	K. O. Ferris
Added Entry	:	Northern Illinois University