I think that it isn’t entirely possible for a news report to be purely unbiased or without ethnocentrism. Even if there was no pressure from partisan networks, there is still a human tendency to be biased regardless. There’s always an interpretive process that happens when taking in facts that is very human. Therefore the points that is written out for the media will be biased towards the way it was interpreted by the individuals. I think the only way to get the most neutral from of news is to read the same story from multiple and foreign sources and formulating for yourself what you think the truths are. That is, of course, a lot of handwork and also very time consuming, therefore the average reader wouldn’t consider that.
I think that experiments that attempt to isolate the relations of violent tv programs with violence in viewers is always prone to error. I think, if anything, its only effective in finding out the effects of violent images to a person in the shorter term. A person’s violent tendencies can depend on an array of things from life experiences to parental guidance to even elaborate areas such as the brain chemistries of any individual. Also, ever culture seems to have a different level of acceptance for the kind of violence portrayed on TV. I feel that America is most lenient with live action violence and not so lenient with nudity compared to European countries. I’ve also noticed that Americans have an elaborate set of rules concerning what kind of cartoon violence is acceptable. Although they’re kind of funny because shows like Tom and Jerry actually features violence that would kill in real life. On the other hand, a live action movie could be given a harsher rating even if much of the violence is implied.
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