On Monday, October 9, 2012, ABC mews published a story
regarding professional football player Eric Winston’s words against the fan’s
in his own city. Although this story contains many of Cline’s biases, I think
the one that is the most obvious is the temporal bias. The temporal bias essentially
says that whatever is new and notable is, “news”. I am quite a passionate fan
of the National Football League and its games, but I honestly don’t consider
this story to be newsworthy on a national news network. The story is that home
fans for the Kansas City Chiefs cheered an injury of their own player, Matt, Cassel,
and a different player, Eric Winston, stepped up to defend the injured player. This
issue is certainly notable, but it is not newsworthy. I don’t see how this story
is crucial or notable among other stories regarding the future of the country, those
in need, or significant tragedies.
Other than the temporal bias, the bias that is apparent is
the bad news bias. The bad news bias basically states that good news is not
interesting, therefore bad news is better to report. This is clearly bad news.
If an NFL player told media reporters in a press conference that he loved his
fans, the story would not make it on a national news network. The implications
of these biases are more geared toward showing negativity surrounding the
Kansas City Chiefs’ franchise. Many other football related websites and
television networks will agree that the Kansas City Chiefs franchise is an
organization with many people in danger of getting fired due to poor
performance and preparation. Perhaps that’s why this story is present on a
national news website. The temporal and bad news biases are sneakily used in
this story to show the dismay in the Kansas City Chiefs football franchise.
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Jon, I also am a big fan of the NFL and also just football in general. This story to me is just ridiculous because I understand being disappointed in your team losing, well I know from personal knowledge because the Colts were 2-14 last year, but cheering when a player gets hurt seriously or not is just childish,absurd and sad. I personally think that fans are kind of getting out of hand in today's sports because the players put their bodies and well being on the line for there entertainment then this is what they get in return. I do agree with your point that this story really isn't a big time story and most likely won't be talked about for a long time, probably will be forgotten about in a week or two. I just hope people calm down a little bit and not take the game as a life or death thing in the near future because the players put in a lot of dedication and hard work to be as successful as they can be.
ReplyDeleteA possible third bias to this story could be visual bias I guess because the interview Eric Winston gave was on television therefore making it a visual bias. So that is really the only reason I have for it being visual bias. Most news anymore is visual bias since everything now is either on television or it is all over the internet. I would say that most people only receive the news through the visual help because I really don't think people read newspapers much so the television is the main source. Definitely this story would be considered temporal bias since it happened Sunday and will be blown over in a week or two like I said earlier in this comment.
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