What isn't Bias?

Okay, it is evident that one can really not attempt to watch anything without some sort of bias...I do not feel that there is anything wrong with that. We are humans and it is in our nature to have our own opinions. I came across a website called dirtyd.com. It is a website about the Dallas social scene, sort of a spin of perezhilton.com. As I was going through the site, it was obvious purely bias.

The site had pictures of people i knew and people I have seen out before. Some captions were kind of funny, not too mean...others were pretty vicious. "What a hippo" "Attention Dallas plastic surgeons, help these people!" etc.

The point I am trying to get across is this. There is bias in every medium we look at. In the news it is pretty much in the viewers discretion to decide whether or not to take everything word for word. In mediums such as this DirtyD.com, it is obvious it is the creaters bias. The audience can laugh and probably will, until they see their face on it with some horrible caption.

Bias can make or break opinions about people or events. It is crazy how some one speaking about an event or person with a slight opinion of their own, can sway another. I thought that this dirtyD.com website fit into our bias discussions because it was one, with all bias opinions and its good to see and realize that.

Is this the news or the downer of the day?

Cars are sliding off the roads, hit and runs, murder, power outages, whats causing cancer now? All this before 10 AM?

I am trying to have my morning cup of coffee and now have seemed to have lost my appetite for my oatmeal. Maybe the morning news was a bad choice. It seems as though Dallas/Ft Worth is the most dangerous place to live in the country. I kept watching to see if the news would hit a brighter topic...but no. It went from horrible weather, to a hit and run, to a mistakenly killed musician, and so on. The worst part of all this, is that every news program runs like this.

I know we spoke about the fact that violence sells...but have we ever tried otherwise? Would it be so wrong to stick a few good stories out there? Something that may give the viewer some hope that the world is not that scarey?

I think we need to know that there is violence amoung our community, but I also think that showing some good news wouldn't hurt anyone. I am more conscience about the local news now. I am now on a search to see who puts atleast one good news story in their program. I will get back to you once I find my answer.