Description
Each student is required to read the article Measuring Media Bias: A Content Analysis of Time and Newsweek Coverage of Domestic Social issues, 1975-2000 (Covert and Wasburn, 2007) and write an approximately 1000-words report is typed, 12 point Times New Roman font, double spaced, and 1” margins. In your paper, the following questions MUST be reasonably addressed: What main flaws of prior research in media bias were mentioned by Covert and Wasburn? (related topic “Errors in Personal Human Inquiry” see Chapter 1) How did Cover and Wasburm measure the concepts “conservative” and “liberal” in their research? (related topic “Conceptualization” and “Composite Measures” see Chapter 4) How did Cover and Wasburn select samples for their research? (related topic “Sampling” Chapter 6) Save your paper in the word document (.docx) with a unified file name as last name/first name initial (e.g., the paper of John Smith will be SmithJ), and submit it as an attachment to the instructor in a timely manner.
