Week 4: Student Response to Discussion One and Two and Assignment

Read Chapter 12 in Mass Media and American Politics. Then, review two print articles and listen to two broadcast reports about a recent story that made both national and local news where politics is at the forefront of the issue. One article and broadcast should be from your local news media outlets (city or state) and the other should be from national news media outlets.

In a two- to three-page paper (excluding title and reference pages), address the following:

· Discuss the overall nature of the news entities that wrote the story (i.e. mainstream vs. alternative, liberal vs. conservative).

· Identify and discuss at least one type of political bias that appears in each of the stories.

· Describe the differences in the political aspects in the print and the broadcast reports.

· Discuss how each of the stories could have eliminated the political bias.

The assignment must be completed using the APA style format and must include a title page, in-text citations, and a full list of references at the end. You must cite at least two references from the textbook and at least one reference from scholarly outside reading material. References for each of the stories must also be included.