Comparing The Pros And Cons Of Going To College

One thing common amongst anyone who has a job is that they all likely had some form of education at one point. People who want well-paying jobs, for instance being a doctor or lawyer, need to go through many years of school, including some form of higher education. However, the internet saw a boom in media bias. Controversial school topics like the school system are susceptible to the opinions of internet users across the world, therefore, users of the internet have mixed opinions about the differing topics, making almost every piece of media covering said topics different and using different sources to prove their own point. Writers and creators of different pieces of media may try to shift the perception of their audience to benefit themselves.

Comparing the Pros and Cons of Going to College by Melissa Brooks is a good example of this. Sticking with the education theme of this essay, this article provides clear reasons to go and not go to college. Melissa states that “it’s important to look at reasons both for and against going to college to avoid falling prey to ‘confirmation bias.’ This term refers to our. Tendency to look for evidence, information, and ideas that confirm our beliefs” (Brook). Melissa views both sides of the argument, but instead of picking sides, she leaves it up to the reader—people who are deciding whether or not they should go to college. This emphasizes that she is writing the article unbiasedly and is just trying to get the information across. Melissa also lists the average median pay per week from someone without a high school diploma to a doctoral degree, which is from six hundred twenty-six dollars to one thousand nine hundred and nine dollars (“Brook”). And since the 1980’s, around seventy percent of workers need some type of college experience. Information Melissa acquired from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (Brook). Melissa uses information to back up her claim without using any flawed sources. She does not use the information that people without a degree from college

Media-biased articles do this a lot if they benefit themselves. In particular, topics under school categories are very susceptible to media bias, as most of those topics, like going to college, are worthwhile or not, and the school system is a result of how controversial they are. But even with all this media bias around the internet, there is a way to combat it. It is to find unbiased articles that can clear up misconceptions about many topics, especially topics on education in America. This shows that the internet is filled with many types of bias. Whether it is to just write something or to prove a point, most pieces of media on a controversial topic will have some type of bias. And as controversial as school topics are, they are bound to have many more articles that may undermine or exaggerate the efforts of American education. The real question is, how will this affect future generations? Who will grow up in a generation where frequent use of the internet is common? Will people slowly become more doubtful or faithful to the education system at a younger age? Only time will tell the future of how internet bias affects the youth's trust in