Alleged News Media Bias

Find five scholarly articles addressing the question of alleged news media bias. Summarize and present a critical analysis of the studies and their findings and make a logical argument based on the analysis. Then draw from the studies a conclusion based on their findings about what we seem to know, and what we don’t know, about media bias. Does it exist? If so, what form does it take? Do these studies answer the question for you, or are there questions you think remain unaddressed?  The paper should be at most five pages. Acceptable articles are those that appear in scholarly journals, not blogs/websites/newspapers/magazines. Some good journals to consider are: Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, Political Communication, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and American Political Science Review. In addition, any book that has a university press (e.g., University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, etc.) counts as peer-reviewed.  Possible topics could include (but are not limited to) allegations of: Liberal bias, corporate bias, racial bias, mainstream bias, pro-American bias, bias in coverage of issues such as war, abortion, the Arab-Israeli conflict, etc.