Media Watch Groups in the United States : Their Social and Political Impact

这项研究考察了所谓的媒体监督组织在国际政治中的作用。具体而言，本文主要关注美国的几个主要媒体监督团体（包括政治上的左翼和右翼，以及专门研究某些主题的团体，例如特定的种族和民族或特定的国家和地区），并分析他们如何构建重要的政治问题。媒体监督团体声称，他们分析主要媒体的新闻内容，并指出其不准确和偏见。媒体观察团体的活动对于澄清受到倾斜报道的重要问题以及促进公开对话非常重要。然而，媒体观察团体本身也并非没有政治偏见：一些团体似乎以一种促进自己政治议程的方式提供数据；有些人更意识到团体的政治倾向，并试图与志同道合的利益集团合作，以推动他们的政策重点。这项工作的结论是，媒体观察组织的“客观”数据有时可能会对有争议的问题产生某些看法

This study examines the role of so-called media watchdog groups in international politics. Specifically, this paper focuses on several major media watchdog groups in the United States(both politically left and right, as well as groups that specialize in certain topics, such as particular race and ethnicity or specific countries and regions) and analyzed how they frame important political issues.Media watchdog groups claim that they analyze news contents of major news organizations and point out their inaccuracies and bias. Media watch groups' activities are very important in setting record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage and also in promoting open dialogue in public.However, media watch groups themselves are not free from political bias: some groups appear to present data in a way that they promote their own political agenda; some are more conscious of the groups' political leanings and attempt to collaborate with like-minded interest group in order to press their policy priorities.This work concludes that media watch groups' "objective" data may sometimes create certain views on controversial issues