Bias

IB Programme - Language and Literature

Youssef Eltit - Sebastián Calderón

Bias

News Title
What's undermining black America?

Source
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42456727#42456727


Main Point
- The problem is that the U.S.A. government is using an enormous amount of money on Prisons and a very few millions for education.
- 1 per 10 person who are in prison had education
- Also, the 58% of the total amount of persons who are on prison are Latin or Afro-American, so there's Racism on the American's?
- If we don't resolve the problem with education, we will never resolve the one with prisons and security.

Bias Detected
-Stereotype of the U.S. prisoners, because when an American saw an Afro-American or a "Latino", he automatically think that those ones are thieves or bad people.

-The name of the programme is "A Stronger America", so they are giving a positive point of view, they want to create a stronger America, resolving and discussing some problems on different areas of interest, such as politics, economy, etc.

-They say that 1 per 10 person who are in prison had education. This is looked with a positive point of view, because he didn't say 9 per 10 didn't had education.