The Media Bias

Fox news, a more conservative media outlet says that Jeb can be labeled as a ‘neoconservative’.  Jeb was pegged as a neoconservative by Fox due to the fact that in part of the team that he put together for foreign policy there were two people that were largely involved in George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. Fox is showing here that Jeb’s attempted image that he is struggling to create, which is that he is not his brother or his father, is a fake image. This is what marks Jeb as a neoconservative as he wants to revert back to old, traditional ways; they are showing that Bush wants to create a foreign policy that acts quickly similar to that of George W. Bush’s.  These are fairly accurate of Jeb and give potential insight into what many people believe in that while he claims to be different than his father and brother that he will not fall far from the tree.

Although Jeb craves to separate himself from his last name so people will pay attention to his political ideology and what he stands for, this has all been talk thus far. In most of the actions that Jeb has made in the past and current stances on issues he is showing signs that he will not differentiate too greatly from the presidency of George H.W., and especially George W. Although the fact that Jeb has put some controversial members on his team this is slightly unfair to go as far as to say that he is a neoconservative. After all, Jeb may just be picking people that he knows has a good work ethic and who he has worked with before which could be very possible due to his brother having worked with these individuals as well.

In the LA times article Jeb Bush decries liberal approaches in Detroit speech it shows a similar ideology to the Fox article, but by framing the ideas from the converse angle. This article shows Bush not encouraging conservativism as much as he is speaking out against liberalism. One prime example of this is in the excerpt where Jeb says “so I say let’s go where ideas will matter the most, where the failures of liberal government policies are most obvious”. Which since they are directly pulling quotes from his speech it provides a little more credibility and I do believe that Jeb wants to separate himself from the liberals. Although I do believe that Jeb is slightly more liberal than he and the rest of the media attempt to paint him out to be.

I would say that these articles are both rather fair so long as the individual is aware of what is being written about; if the reader is not aware of the biases in each writing this could give a false look at Jeb. I think that if an individual were to only read the Fox article and believe the entirety of what they read they would simply think that George Bush would be helping Jeb call the shots and that it would be another four years of the same old Bush.

References

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-jeb-bush-detroit-speech-20150204-story.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/18/jeb-bush-neoconservative/