Influence of individual journalists on media content

Introduction
In the 21st century that we live in, media is the power of communication. It influences our perception of the world and it mediates our construction of the reality. People fear about the distortion of reality that the mass media would make because once something is out in the air, it spreads through billions of people around the globe in the blink of an eye through the internet. Therefore people are sensitive and become unhappy about the mass media easily. In the United States, “charges that mass communications are politically liberal, unlike ‘most Americans’ have been common in recent years”(Shoemaker & Reese, 1996, p.82). Republicans complain about liberal bias made by the media against them. Is it true? If so, what contributes to the influence of individual journalists on news content? In order to validate the accurateness of the existence of liberal bias, we first investigate the effect of personal background towards influence in news content. I am going ...