Is Bias Inevitable In The Production Of Knowledge?

Is bias inevitable in the production of knowledge?Object #1: Political cartoonBias, whether implicit or explicit, is indeed inevitable whenever we intake information as we allhave our own perspectives from which we build an opinion on something we are presented with.Social influences, even discussions that we have heard of but never participated in, have animpact and build a predisposition toward a particular issue.When it comes to politics, everyone has their own beliefs and views on what is truly going on,what is publicly stated and what is being propagated as rumors. To further elaborate on mythoughts I picked this cartoon as my display object. It represents media biases in the news, byshowing varying perspectives of dif ferent political ideologies, on the same life event.The cartoon depicts a capital attack in the United States, although is displayed in dif ferent ways.Each of these journalists state their own truth for their tar geted audience. A liberal journalist,'CNN', claims that the incident was a 'terrorist attack' and that we should handle it as such. Incontrast, a republican journalist, Fox News', has an entirely dif ferent viewpoint on the subject.The illustration exposes prejudice as a genuine problem in the news. This is a real-worldexample where the