Discussion 1: Trump rally coverage biases

SOURCE 1:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/12/politics/donald-trump-protests/

“Trump ends wild day on campaign trail by calling for protesters' arrests”

SOURCE 2:

https://twitter.com/stokith/status/708830792550494208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

“As you can see, we were far from what happened and peaceful and lawful and he still walked up to spray us”

SOURCE 3:

http://fox61.com/2016/03/12/trump-supporters-protesters-clash-after-chicago-rally-postponed/

“Trump blames Sanders supporters for Chicago unrest; protester tries to rush stage”

 

The CNN article seemed to have more of a bias towards democrats since the framing and quotes used by Trump sounded more threatening in the context the article provided. Quotes like “I'll file whatever charges you want. If they want to do this ... we're going to go strongly for your arrests", as well as saying that arresting these protesters would "ruin the rest of their lives" by giving them a "big arrest mark”. After these statements are made the article refers to a Tweet made by a man named Chris, who called out the Kansas City  Police department for pepper spraying peaceful protestors with a provided video. Twitter is a popular media outlet for activists seeking change.

In this case, even though Chris is not a very active member of the activist media world, on this day he was one and stated his thoughts by framing the police department as the people to blame. However, it is obvious that he is not a supporter of Trump and is perhaps also upset by the fact that police were somehow manipulated by Trump since he made those statements in the beginning of the day on how he demanded police to arrest protestors.

The Fox article however is much more biased towards republicans by only highlighting what negative things Trump had to say about Bernie Sanders and his “people”. Each quote pulled by the author of this article made Bernie out to be a communist who couldn’t control his supporters let alone a country. The reference to Bernie being a communist was also largely belittling, referring to him as the worlds “communist friend”, all being said with heavy sarcasm.