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Media Bias
In the case of the Schiavo dispute, the media portrayed republican senators as completely partisan and not willing to work with democrats on whether or not to remove Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube. The media also showed bias when ABC ran a poll that showed false results. Polls stated that people were against congressional involvement, and were for the removal of Schiavo's tube. Columnist Michelle Malkin stated at the time that respondents were given misleading evidence. These two incidents show that the media showed bias in this case.
During the tragic accident and the events there after of Princess Dianna's death, media bias crept into the equation. At her funeral her brother Earl of Spencer used the eulogy to blast the media and its aggressiveness in covering her love life. Soon afterwards in different publications and broadcast the media edited out Earl's aggressive comments, clearly another example of media bias. Even to this day there certain sites where you can't......

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