Media Bias

Media Bias?

 

As we all know Elizabeth Warren still has not announced (or plan too) that she will be running for president in 2016 but that does not mean that she is not in the media, at both ends of the spectrum. Warren was recently featured on CNN to discuss her book and what the focus of the 2016 presidential election should be, middle-class families and the economy. In this video it shows the softer but strong voiced Senator that Warren is known for. As we know CNN is more of a liberal news source therefore, them showing this video and featuring Warren isn’t a total shocker. The video portrays Warren as down to earth woman who knows her information and isn’t afraid to speak the truth.

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/economy/2015/04/10/elizabeth-warren-2016-families.cnnmoney/index.html

On the opposite end of the spectrum, on The Blaze I found an article that discusses the urge some Democrats have for Elizabeth Warren to run for president. The article is very straight forward and discusses what state the signatures are from. The article is mostly quotes and doesn’t have any room for opinions, especially conservative opinions which is what The Blaze is. However, she Warren has repeatedly said no to running for president, it was difficult to find a specific article on the conservative side of news media that discussed her “what-if” running situation.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/19/dem-lawmakers-in-early-states-crank-up-the-pressure-for-elizabeth-warren-for-2016/

Between the two different news links Elizabeth Warren is portrayed as a hero, in the CNN video she comes off as a Senator for the people, she comes off as knowledge and well put together. In The Blaze article it discusses that organized liberal groups are putting together petitions for Warren to run, even though she has repeatedly said no to running for president.

Based on everything that I have researched about Warren for the last couple of weeks, her beliefs, and attitude were portrayed both equally from both media news sources. Warren for example is total opposite of Sarah Palin when it comes to their mannerisms and speaking style and neither of these specific news reports make Warren come off as a Palin alike, the new sources make her seem like the senator that she is, a passionate person.  There is nothing unfair in either of these reports that would be considered biased media information, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t biased information and articles out there because, well there is. The only “unfair” comment in The Blaze article is that it says Warren would trail far behind Clinton, which who’s to say Warren wouldn’t give Clinton a run for her money and win?

If a voter was unaware of Elizabeth Warren, her qualifications, or what she beliefs in that voter would most likely be surprised that by both of these news reporters she is a liberal who is for the middle class, especially middle class families, recent college graduates who are facing loan debt, and that even though she has declared she has no intentions of running for president so has enough followers and believers that they are petitioning for her to reconsider and to run against Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.