In Review of "The News Keeps Getting Worse For Our News Organizations"

The blog post, The News Keeps Getting Worse For Our News Organizations by Jim Miller is about a study done by Pew Research on how more people than ever now believe that the news organizations of today are biased in some way. Miller is a professor of political science and liberal studies at Brandeis University. His main message is that a larger percentage of the American population is saying that they believe news is biased. He seems to be addressing those who are interested in how the public is dealing with the bias in the media. According to Miller the belief that news is biased spreads across party lines to both democrats and republicans. Miller uses parts of the study to show how more men than women and more people over 50 than under believe that news is biased. He even goes as far to say, "In other words, the more you know about the news, the more likely you are to see the news as very biased". Miller also talks about a simple political test that was given to a number of registered voters. This test showed that the average voter was very uneducated or misinformed as the test produced poor results. Miller appears to try to pass the message that more people are now seeing the media for what it really is and that media is failing at providing the correct factual news.

Miller shows that he agrees with the increase in the number of those who believe news is biased. Miller states how the poor test results, "should worry our news organizations"; this implies that some might not even care. Miller also appears to imply in his article that women do not know as much about politics as men and those under 50 do not know as much as those over. Adding the quote in the previous paragraph along with the fact that 33 percent of women and 41 percent of men, and 44 percent of those over 50 and 31 percent of those under 50 thought that news was biased, shows that Miller is definitely implying something of that nature. Miller also believes that the bias in news media is a bipartisan problem.

It is very obvious that Miller believes news is biased and according to recent studies so are a growing portion of Americans. If more and more people begin to believe news is biased how long will it be before news changes to be more accountable? Will there even be a change? If we cannot trust the news to provide us with accurate information then who can we trust? The news needs to be made more accurate and accountable, unfortunately though, until news sees a sharp decline in ratings I doubt a change will occur. The implications of this bias will only result in the American public being misled and misinformed to believe whatever that particular news organization whats them to believe. There is no way around it, the news media is biased and the public is wising up to it.