Fourth: Media Biases

This lecture’s political cartoon portrays a few of the most biased news networks in the United States. In addition, this cartoon pokes fun at the American public’s lack of knowledge or misinformation of key world events. The first image is of an anchorwoman for CNN. She is reporting on a story that completely bashes Republicans and Conservatives alike. Simultaneously, the anchorman for Fox News in the picture is bashing liberals and trying to associate them with the Devil. On the other hand, the anchorman for BBC, which is most commonly known as an unbiased and well reported news source, is stating that all Americans are clueless and no little to nothing about the state of the world. Each of the news stations pictured are typically associated with the image portrayed. For example, CNN is known as a liberal network, Fox is known as conservative, and BBC sometimes possesses an anti-American stance. This cartoon represents all the fallacies within the American media system, and simultaneously mocks American ignorance.