HOT TOPICS: MEDIA
BIAS
Scope|Databases|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: The media has a great influence on today’s society and has increased information access and
openness (Miller, A Companion to Cultural Studies).
Media news outlets are frequently accused of having a
liberal or conservative slant; as a result, many
"watchdog" groups have sprung up. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with media and society are listed in the Baddour Library’s on-line catalog under the following subject headings:
Journalism -- Objectivity
Journalistic ethics -- United States
Mass media -- Objectivity
Mass media and public opinion—United States
Mass media—Moral and ethical aspects—United States
Mass Media—Influence
Mass Media—Psychological aspects
Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United
States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF HM 623.C65 2001 A Companion to Cultural Studies
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:
DATABASES
The following databases
index journals and other sources that relate to the news
and contemporary events. These databases are accessible
from the library’s web site.
Newspaper Source and Regional Business News
Facts on File
CQ Researcher
Lexis-Nexis News
Accunet Multi-Media Archive
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Goldberg, Bernard.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the
News / Bernard Goldberg. Washington, DC : Regnery
Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National
Book Network, c2002.
Goldstein, Tom.
The News at Any Cost : How Journalists Compromise Their
Ethics to Shape the News / Tom Goldstein. New York :
Simon and Schuster, c1985.
Goodwin, H. Eugene.
Groping for Ethics in Journalism / H. Eugene
Goodwin.
Imprint Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1983.
Greenwald, Robert.
Outfoxed [videorecording] : Rupert Murdoch's war on
journalism / producer / director Robert Greenwald. New
York : Disinformation Co., [2004].
Herman, Andrew, ed.
The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory.
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Martin, Christopher R. Framed!:
Labor and the Corporate Media. Ithaca,N.Y: ILR
Press, 2004.
Potter, W. James. The 11
Myths of Media Violence. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage
Publications, 2003.
Pritchard, David,ed. Holding the
Media Accountable: Citizens, Ethics, and the Law.
Reeves, Byron. The
Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televison, and
New Media Like Real People and Places. Stanford,CA: CSLI Publications, 2002.
West, Darrell M. The
Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin’s, 2001.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Accuracy in Media
http://www.aim.org/
"A non-profit, grassroots
citizens watchdog of the news media that sets the record
straight on important issues that have received slanted
coverage."
Alternative,
Liberal, & Underground News Sources
http://library.smsu.edu/resources/altnews.shtml
A list of varying news media with a liberal,
alternative, or underground slant, compiled by the
Missouri State University Libraries.
Center for Media and
Public Affairs
http://www.cmpa.com/
"A nonpartisan research
and educational organization which conducts scientific
studies of the news and entertainment media."
Conservative News
Sources
http://library.smsu.edu/resources/connews.shtml
A list of varying news media with a conservative
slant, compiled by the Missouri State University
Libraries.
Conservative Opinion
Pages and News Sources
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/conservativeopinionpages/
A compilation from
About.com.
Cornell Media & Research Group
http://www.comm.cornell.edu/msrg/msrg.html
"Looks at the interaction
of media content, knowledge, affect and attitudes and
their impact on public opinion and behavior for a wide
range of issues. our research seeks to identify the
social and interpersonal contexts and variables that
shape the communication process."
Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/index.php
"Advocating for greater
diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media
practices that marginalize public interest, minority and
dissenting viewpoints."
Liberal News Sources
http://usliberals.about.com/od/essentialblogsmedia/index.htm?terms=liberal+news+sources
A compilation from About.com.
Media Research
Center
http://www.mediaresearch.org/
"The mission of the Media
Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility
to the news media."
The Peabody Center for Media & Society
http://www.peabody.uga.edu/programs
"The goals of The Peabody
Center for Media and Society are: to establish the
premier site for reasoned deliberation of increasingly
significant connections linking electronic media and
vital social topics and issues, and to address the
policy communities dealing with these issues."
Political Science
Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/poliscinew.html
An award-winning site created by Grace York, a
political science librarian from the University of
Michigan. This site features just about everything you
ever wanted to know about politics including statistics,
political theory, area studies, foreign politics,
periodicals, international relations, etc.
Poly-cy: Internet Resources for Political Science
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/polycy/
Links to both national and international resources
created and maintained by Robert Duval l (West Virginia
University)
Updated
02/08/2007
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