Bias Analysis in Print or Television
News – Prof.
http://libraries.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/AcademicUniverse.html
Provides access to full text news stories.
Most publications are covered 1980-present. Updated
constantly.
Full text transcripts of news broadcasts are included.
Use Quicklinks on right of
libraries home page. Select LexisNexis.
Select Guided News Search.
Follow Steps. Once Step 1 is
selected, you may select a specific source (newspaper or TV news transcript) in
Step 2, and paste it to your search.
Be sure to select the correct
date range in Step 4.
2. NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers
http://libraries.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/NewsBank.html
Complete full-text content of local and
regional news. Includes
Use
Databases> News> Newsbank
Click a state to see what
papers are included.
Select specific paper by
checking the box.
International news sources are available in LexisNexis and in World News Connection
http://libraries.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/WorldNewsConnect.html
Full-text English
language translations of foreign news service articles, translations of foreign
speeches and other news items from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS).
Use Databases> By title W> World News Connection.
Finding Background articles
To find the required background articles, such as those in Foreign Affairs, use
4. Omnifile
http://libraries.claremont.edu/research/databases/dbredirect/OmniFile.html
Use Databases> By title O> Omnifile.
In Omnifile, first click Omnifile Full Text Mega box (on right)
In one search box, use Foreign Affairs and change pulldown menu to Journal Name.
In other boxes search your subject as Keyword or as Subject.
If you search Foreign Affairs, you will find many articles are fulltext. Click the fulltext link (blue striped ‘page stack’ icon). In the article you can then use the left menu Print/Email/Save link to send fulltext to yourself, or to print or save the entire article.
Also try Annenberg’s FactCheck site for political issues. http://factcheck.org
Helpful sources on Media Bias
Groseclose, Tim, and
Jeffrey Milyo. 2003. “A Measure of Media Bias,”
Working Paper, December.
http://www.cbrss.harvard.edu/events/ppe/papers/Tim%20Groseclose%20Media%20Bias%20Paper.pdf
From American Society of Newspaper Editors:
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/reports/99reports/1999examiningourcredibility/p27-32_Bias.html
From
the
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=215
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