You will prepare and submit a term paper on Media's Political Bias. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Media's Political Bias. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. While media houses in the United States practice fully operationalized rights and freedoms, those in Asia operate in a relatively uncertain environment. Some countries in Asia have operationalized media freedom, while others still control media activities across all divides. Specifically, South Asia monitors media activities and controls specific media aspects, especially political movements, set to go public. This aspect sets the primary differential factor in the media's political bias in the United States and Asia.

To understand what media's political bias entails, it is essential to understand the determinants of political bias. Political bias is rooted in the selection of events, reporting of stories, and coverage of these events and developments in a way that favors one side at the expense of the other (McKay 149). This means that events that are advantageous to one party are presented at the cost of another party. In this case, any negativity involved is ignored, while that about the party being taken advantage of is given. This selection to favor or demean one party at the expense of another in media coverage constitutes a discriminatory practice.

In the political context, the same concept applies, only that in this case, media coverage focuses on political figures, political parties, or political views. Because there are numerous stakeholders in the political environment, political bias is far and wide in scope, and it is also diverse and dynamic over time. While the political climate lays a common ground upon which political bias operates in both the United States and Asia, the extent, magnitude, and practice of political bias significantly vary in these two areas.

In the United States, media freedom is not curtailed in any way. The practice of political bias by the media is nearly set within the rights and freedoms of media. The media acts as the watchdog for the public. Media engages in observing, recording, reporting, and critiquing political events from time to time, thereby yielding differentiated reactions to the public (Campbell, Martin & Fabos 162).