3. Most news sources are for profit organizations that edit stories to gain more attention and better ratings. Also, news stations like Fox and CNN contribute their own political views and feelings about a story, and they can present topics based on their own opinions and biases. News stations that tend to be more reliable include stations like PBS and other nonprofit broadcast organizations. One of the big topics in the news today is hate crimes and discrimination against people of a different race, gender, gender orientation, sexual orientation, religion, and people with disabilities. For a crime to be classified as a hate crime the victim must present evidence that the act was motivated by hate. The offender could have used hateful language, left hate symbols, or the police concluded that it was a hate crime. …show more content…
residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015, there was no statistically significant change in the annual rate of violent hate crime victimization from 2004 to 2015 (about 0.7 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older), the majority (99%) of victims cited offenders' use of hate language as evidence of a hate crime, during the 5-year aggregate period from 2011-15, racial bias was the most common motivation for hate crime (48%), and about 54% of hate crime victimizations were not reported to police during 2011-15 (Hate Crime