Looking at two major mainstream news networks, you can immediately analyze their bias before even reading a story. I looked at CNN and Fox News, and immediately saw differences just in the headlines of stories and the website. The main page of CNN’s website had a picture of Obama on it, while Fox News’ website showed a picture of McCain on the main page. Fox News is notoriously more conservative while CNN is on the moderate to liberal side of the political spectrum.
One thing that I found very interesting on CNN’s website was that there was a special page created just for the War in Iraq. It contains news articles, casualty lists, alerts, videos, and more. So while I was looking at it trying to find a recent news story to write about, I noticed that all of the stories under “breaking news” were from May 2003. I was confused, because it is not like this was a random website that someone just decided to stop updating. This was CNN. When I scrolled back to the top of the page, I saw something that said, “This page was archived in May 2003 when President Bush declared an end to major combat. However, the coalition casualties list continues to be updated.” I think that this page alone clearly shows CNN’s stance on the United States in Iraq.
Fox News on the other hand, also has a page dedicated to the War on Terrorism. They even have lovely interactive guides including “Terror Survival Handbook” which says underneath, “Click here to see an interactive guide on how to boost your chances of surviving a terror attack”. The other fun little interactive guide is the “Weapon of Mass Destruction Handbook” which includes everything anyone ever wanted to know about weapons of mass destruction including the history, who has them, and how to protect yourself.
Although this blog post said to analyze two articles, I think that just by analyzing two contrasting websites, one is able to see the opposing views.
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