The Media Bias In The 2008 Elections

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Today, there is a lot of bias going on in the media. Media bias is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner. The media today feeds people with the correct information, but not complete information. They leave one side of a story or a crucial aspect of a story. An example is the case of the 2008 election. With the way the media presented Obama, everyone taught he was the messiah. The NBC news did an excellent job selling Barack Obama as the ideal candidate for president in the 2008 elections. His background was ignored, his votes unreported, his schooling and records was never looked into, It got so absurd that newspaper, and TV news outlet began to employ visuals presenting Obama in near