Blog 8: Media Bias

Rand Paul has been known as an individual to speak his mind, no matter the context or setting. This particular "incident" happened a few days ago on "Today." Savannah Guthrie was the host interviewing Rand and was asking him several questions in a row. He was not able to give an answer, making him rather angry until he finally stopped Savannah and told her to "why don't we let me explain, instead of talking over me."

The story titles between CNN and Fox News are rather comical. CNN says that Rand "Scolded Savannah," whereas Fox News says that there was "Testiness" on Today between Rand and Savannah. Due to media bias, I would say that CNN was far more harsh in their title on Rand than Fox News was. Was it due to party affiliation and media bias? No telling, but Fox News certainly covered Rand far more than CNN. In fact, CNN covered twice as Hillary Clinton topics than Fox did, and Fox covered more Rand and Rubio than CNN.

The next part, CNN took Rand being short with Savannah as him being sexist seeing as how he's had a "temper," or "problems" with female reporters in the past. CNN started out with that being the main concern, then talking about different political ideologies after. Fox News was the exact opposite. Fox news devoted 3/4 of the article to political differences, and left a remaining paragraph or two to Rand having gender problems.

Depending on which media outlet you saw this story on first could definitely define your outlook on the story, and on Rand to a certain degree. I must say, CNN definitely made the situation and Rand far worse than it really was. CNN shined a negative light on this story. Links to both articles/videos are below.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/08/media/rand-paul-savannah-guthrie/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/09/testiness-at-today-why-rand-paul-lectured-savannah-guthrie/