Bias, Bounces, and Blogs

Article: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0911/President-Obama-s-convention-bounce-Is-it-already-starting-to-fade-video

Bias is something found in so many articles, videos, and anything else relate to news. We're humans. We have our opinions, so we feel a certain way about thing. And a lot of times, we express our feelings. In that first article, and even the second, there is bias. Our blog posts have bias, for sure. With the first article, the author ended with giving his opinion on what Romney needs to do to boost his bounce, "perhaps even one who needs some foreign policy or economic crisis to intervene to give him much of a chance at winning". That's the author's belief of what is needed. That's clearly bias.

Also, the part that says, "which in my view was the pivotal moment of the convention" is the clearest example of bias you can find. He believes that Bill Clinton's speech was a very powerful moment, which I agree with, but that's besides the point. Bias is so common. It can either form or transform people's opinions easily. It's a powerful, widely-used tool. The next sentence is bias too: I believe that bias can make a story more interesting. If an article is just throwing facts left and right at you, it can be very boring. That's not good at all. Bias can give articles that little spark, however too much bias is a terrible thing as well. It seems like, no offense, that a lot of articles in the New York Times have clear bias. But that's what makes me read them. I like to hear people's opinions, whether I completely disagree with them or not. Bias is very important. 

Most U.S. citizens have very easy access to information of almost any kind. In this case, political info. To gather political information, a lot of effort and time is required. You can read a newspaper, or better yet look online, read things, watch videos, follow blogs, "Like" pages on Facebook. There are so many resources at our fingertips, it's truly amazing. You can look up so many different topics, fully educate yourself about things. That's one really fantastic privilege we Americans have. For those of you who have no computer at your home, it's not that hard to find one at a local library or somewhere like that. Technology has connected us to the world faster than ever before. There's so much out there.  There is no doubt in my mind that the internet has played a big part in our government, specifically this upcoming election in November. 

This all matters because it's the way the world is changing. It matters because this is the way that people can get informed about the world. For the most part I already explained why it matters. It matters majorly with our class. It matters because it can help us, Americans, learn about candidates and develop an opinion as to who we want to vote for, which party we want to side with. Which one we don't want to side with, which one we want to trash as much as possible. All of this is easily possible. People have blogs of all sorts sharing heavily biased opinions. Opinions that can also help us believe certain things. That's why bias matters. A lot of political news matters, especially since the presidential election is just a few months off...