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200460 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200460 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 30 pages Skala, Grant Edson, Belle Adame, Bradley Barrett, The Honors College Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Sch School of Politics and Global Studies Hugh Downs School of Human Communication This paper seeks to understand how American political media outlets use foundational aspects of Narrative Transportation Theory and Agenda Setting Theory as a means to provide a biased delivery of news to their consumers. The paper introduces both the origins of both theories and their studied effects on people from past research, and then connects how this occurs in their presentation of political news in a nonfiction environment. The paper concludes with a detailed framework of an experiment that can be used for future studies. Media Bias News Politics Narrative Transportation Theory Agenda Setting Theory Alternate Realities in American Political Media: How to Understand Bias in News