The Detroit News

My group had to research newspapers both local and national and see if there is any biases in these newspapers. I had the Detroit News in October 15, 2008 and after reading and examining the newspaper i found a liberal bias in the newspaper. There are many articles about politics since there is only one week left until the election takes place. I found 8 articles that deal with the election and 3 out of the 8 dealt with the presidential election. Out of the 3, two of the articles attacked McCain and his proposals. The third article was about Obama and what he will do for the economy. No criticism was given about Obama in this article. The other articles dealt with the in state elections which really praise the Democratic candidates in all the races. One article is about the Oakland County prosecutor race and it said that this once large republican county is now leaning towards the Democratic candidate. The other articles says that the Republican incumbants are in danger of losing there seats in the House. In the economy section President Bush and the Republican party were called out on the bad economy. While Jennifer Granholm the Governor of Michigan and a Democrat was praised for her involvement in giving companies tax breaks for investing and making jobs in Michigan.
There are 4 other groups that will examine if there is any biases in the media. The categories are magazines, internet, television, and the radio.

The Media

Is media mostly conservative or liberal? Which companies own what media?
Media is both conservative and liberal. There are many types of media like radio, internet sites, TV programs, newspaper, and magazines that have a bias. Pointing out this and catching the bias is the hard part. We have divided our class into these types of media our main point is to find and explain if there is a bias in different owned media. In my group we have to read different types of newspapers: international and local papers. I have the Detroit News and i can totally find the bias in some of the articles written. I looked at the types of stories and advertisements in the newspaper. There are also conservative newspapers like the New York Times and plenty more. The fun part is finding the biases and understanding it.

What Liberal Media?

An article titled What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman really makes sense of the media and its conservativeness, if thats even a word. He writes about the real right wing conservatives like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh always talkig about the media being liberal. The point he is trying to make is that there isn't a real liberal media.
Imagine a spectrum and the to the right is the conservatives who believe in small government and commmunism. And to the left is the liberals "the socialists", who believe in massive government. The center of the that spectrum are the moderates. He explains that the conservatives whine about the media being liberal. The media is trying to be moderate in the center. Bill O'Reilly and his conservatives yell on there shows about the media being liberal. So therefore the media tries not to be bias and shift the spectrum to the right. The middle of the spectrum is now a little to the right. Also he names many conservative tv channels, news, and hosts of shows. But no one can name any liberal icon in the media, thats because there isnt a liberal on tv the is all the way to the left. His point is tv is becoming conservative and with more whining its just going to get more conservative. There are liberal show and channels but they're not liberal enough.

analyzing bartleby

I found out that it was very hard to analyze Bartleby and to really understand the story. We have written our first drafts and we are workshoping it in class. Many of the students choose the option of analyzing Bartleby the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street. Analyzing to me is basically how you interpret the story and the break down of the story, to where you understand the meaning of this story.