Example Of Essay On Fox News Organizational Analysis: Framing

The audience expects media houses to present any content without unfair framing. Biased reporting can influence the populace opinion, eventually convincing people to take a particular social, political, or economic stand. Despite the trust accorded to these informative sources, selective media houses show partiality. In the past years, Fox News has been highlighted by politicians, watchdogs, academicians, and rival media houses as having racial and political biases in its news coverage.
Major Fox News scheduled political debates had to be canceled when participants boycotted (Devaney, 2013). The content presented both on air and in their print is equally depicted as vulgar due to the influence of Fox News’ management. A better expression of the media house’s bias was in the coverage of the Australian teen that was recently shot dead. A random shooting by a company of two black teens and one white killed the Australian in Oklahoma (Powell, 2013).
When the incident occurred, Fox News asserted there were increased cases of violence against the white. Media presenters used adverse words like the teenagers as having shot the white guy for fun after they got bored (Powell, 2013). Guests at popular shows over the Fox News made equally unfavorable statements backing them with dubious statistics. For instance, a guest during on the Record with Greta Van Susteren show claimed that racist crimes were 40 times more prevalent among the black populations than in the white, yet these occurrences are not talked about (Powell, 2013).
During different shows, associates of the fox news wondered why human rights activists had not taken any action against the murderers. Other critics questioned whether the White House had taken any reaction to the apparently African-American teenagers (Powell, 2013).
Fox News took advantage of the Australian teenager shooting to advance its conservative affiliation. Framing the case as racist would depict racism against the white as having flourished during the mixed-race Democratic era. The claim could as well serve personal interests to the Australian-led media house (Devaney, 2013). Asserting the white house as being slack in responding to the event had a negative impact on the Democrats. The president was quick to disagree with racist claims citing that the teenager shot could as well pass for his son.
Two of the teenagers were American Africans while the other was white. Follow up on the group revealed that the three were part of a gang that planned to carry out more slaughters (Powell, 2013). Claiming that the attack was racist would be biased since the Australian teenager was only a victim of random shooting. Moreover, the presence of a white colleague in the gang eliminates any chances of the group being racist. Besides, incidences of white against white killings exceed black to white killings by far.
The Australian teen murder was only one of a series of incidents that the Fox News perceived as racial. The media house once asserted that Blacks and Latinos would appear in lawbreaker news more than the whites especially when the reported incident focused on violent crime. In a separate coverage, Fox News alleged that incidents of blacks appearing in criminal role newscasts outnumbered incidences in which the social group appeared in socially positive role coverage (Powell, 2013).
A coverage citing the increased number of teen thug groups would be more accepted by the public. Rather than focusing on the ethnicity of the teenagers, the media should have been concerned with the high numbers of people illegally in possession of arms. Critical evaluation of media houses should be done before accepting any of their framed reports.

References

Devaney, H., (2013). Perceptions of Media Bias: viewing the news through ideological cues. Retrieved from https://polisci.ucsd.edu/_files/undergrad/Thesis%202013%20Perceptions%20of%20Media%20Bias%20Viewing%20the%20News%20Through%20Ideological%20Clues.pdf
Powell, B. (2013, August 23) Fox News' Racial Crime Coverage is Hurting People, Retrieved from http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/23/fox-news-racial-crime-coverage-is-hurting-peopl/195567