Bias in the Media (English I)

"We made our living this year. I don't know about next year," said Scott St. Pierre, a shrimp boat captain from Galliano, Louisiana.

The well, owned by petroleum giant BP, spewed an estimated 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of crude into the Gulf of Mexico before it was temporarily capped July 15. It was permanently sealed only when BP drilled a separate relief well into the sea floor, intercepting the original well and allowing workers to fill it with cement from below.

The disaster began with an April 20 explosion aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The blast claimed the lives of 11 workers aboard the platform, which sank two days later in nearly a mile of water.

The rig's blowout preventer, a massive fail-safe device at the seabed, failed to operate after the blast. Efforts to activate it using remote submarines failed. An effort to plug it with heavy drilling fluid and cement failed. A bid to jam it shut by pumping it full of debris also failed.

Over the spring and summer, as oil washed up on beaches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, tourists stayed away from the region's white sands in droves. At one point, federal and state authorities had shut down more than a third of the Gulf to fishing, and a temporary federal ban on deepwater drilling idled oil workers.

St. Pierre said he has spent most of the last four months working for BP, which hired his boat and crew to drag absorbent boom around oily waters, and has not yet returned to fishing. In the meantime, he said, fishermen have lost market share to imports, buyers are still leery of eating fish from the region and no one knows what impact the spill will have on next year's catch.

"The prices are not good. Consumer confidence is low. You can't sell the shrimp," he said.

And Barry Deshamp, a charter boat skipper in Long Beach, Mississippi, said his bookings were down 70 percent over the summer. Many of the people who did g

"I've said no to more government spending, no to President Obama's big health care plan and no to Wall Street bailouts," Representative Walt Minnick, Democrat of Idaho, said in a solemn voice, sitting on the front steps of a house in jeans and shirtsleeves, looking as if he is worlds away from Washington.

Not necessarily bias, but mention of a rhetorical technique.

Isnt't saying that he said that in a "solemn" voice leaning towards Bias against the democrat of Idaho?

I found Bias in the very first paragraph of this article. The writer of this article is seeming bias against France. They are saying that france is the first to do this, and they are saying that they are taking such a measure and that it should not go that far, without coming out and saying it.

The person whom wrote this sounds biased towards democrates and the bills they pass

Which words make the author seem biased?

This article is bias towards putting wind farms in action to produce energy, but only after radars can be re-arranged to bypass the windmills.

What's the quote? Show us the money!

bia in the Media

How exactly is it an example of bias?

"Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli were among the keynote speakers at a thousands-strong rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday that was intended to send a message to big-spending lawmakers."

Who decides whether or not these are "big-spending lawmakers"? Perhaps this should be in quotes.

This article is bias against the companies that are accused of bringing many workers into the U.S from Thailand in attempt to force them to work for free.

The author of this article is bias against the decision of large companies donating money to charities just for the perks that come with the donations, such as annual golf tournaments or dinner outings.

The writer of this sounds like he was against the republicans. He used words like savaged.

The article by David Brooks is a negative article. you can tell by reading the first sentence when he says in this sour season. He also says I was hoping to talk about a politician that ws doing an outstanding job. This is a very clear article to understand.

I found that this article was negative, beacause the writer said that the reform led to something even worse.

"Educated and progressive, with a gay mayor and a City Commission made up entirely of Democrats, Gainesville is a sprawling metropolis of 115,000 people where smoothie shops seem to outnumber gun shops."

The bias here is obvious: on the educated side are "a gay mayor and a City Commission made up entirely of Democrats." By innuendo, this means that the gun shops owners and Republicans are not educated.

The tens of thousands of protesters marched to the U.S. Capitol chanting various slogans and waving posters that voiced a rather broad array of grievances against big government and the leaders, particularly President Obama, who the protesters blame for its size and scope.

drug war that has caused the deaths of more than 28,000 Mexicans, with the resulting loss of billions of dollars in tourism and foreign investment in an economy already in distress; drug gangs terrorizing the population, schoolchildren being taught to duck under their desks in the event of gunfire

The White House certainly has an enormous interest in portraying Mr. Obama as a president who has grown comfortable with his powers and is unafraid to exercise them.

since the mid-1990s, rates of oral cancers have gone up by 28% for men in their forties and 24% for women.