Institutional Racism

• Media Research Center (MRC), a conservative group, with the stated mission of
which is to "prove—through sound scientific research—that liberal bias in the media
does exist and undermines traditional American values."
• Research about media bias is now a subject of systematic scholarship in a variety of
disciplines.
Scholarly Treatment In The United States And United Kingdom
Media bias is studied at schools of journalism, university departments (including Media
studies, Cultural studies and Peace studies) and by independent watchdog groups from
various parts of the political spectrum. In the United States, many of these studies focus
on issues of a conservative/liberal balance in the media. Other focuses include
international differences in reporting, as well as bias in reporting of particular issues
such as economic class or environmental interests. Currently, most of these analyses
are performed manually, requiring exacting and time-consuming effort. However, an
interdisciplinary literature review from 2018 found that automated methods, mostly from
computer science and computational linguistics, are available or could with comparably
low effort be adapted for the analysis of the various forms of media bias. Employing or
adapting such techniques would help to further automate the analyses in the social
sciences, such as content analysis and frame analysis.
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