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Bias in the News
Bias through placement
• Page One:
TEEN SHOOTS MAN AT BUS STOP!!
• Page 35:Teens collect turkeys to serve homeless
Examples of bias through selection and omission
High School Class Choices:
The Romantics
British Lit
American Lit
NOT OFFERED:
African Literature
Bias by headline
Bias by photos, captions and camera angles
Bias through use of names and titles
• Bill Gates: Arrested and Convicted
Bias through use of names and titles
• Bill Gates: Ex Con?
In 1977 the owner of Microsoft was arrested for driving without a license and not stopping at a stop sign. This wasn’t the first time he got arrested though. In
1975 he was arrested for driving without a license and speeding.
In 1989 he was arrested for driving drunk but that charge
was reduced later on.
• Bill Gates the Multibillion Dollar Philanthropist
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
• Fifty people injured in Air Crash!
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
• Fifty people injured in Air Crash!• Fifty out of how many people?
• When it says injured, what does that mean?• What constitutes a crash?
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
• Only 7% of passengers sustained minor injuries (50 out of 700)
• Most injuries dealt with whiplash
• Most severe injury was a major wrist sprain
Bias by source control • To detect bias, always consider where the
news item "comes from."
Bias through word choice and tone
• Pushy or Assertive?
• Skinny or Slim?
• Reckless or Daring?
• Isolated or Shy?
• Take Charge Attitude or Micromanager
Pretend Magazine
• Please turn the pages of this fake magazine and using your media awareness information sheet see if you can spot bias.
Memories of Hurricane Katrina Page 2
Memories of Hurricane Katrina
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
Page 2
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly a half-hour
Friday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Obama
administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing.
Page 3
Let’s look at teen magazines Page 3
Page 4
Liberal Media Bias
• Is this a real thing?
• Why is this term used?
Liberal Media Bias
• Liberal: open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
• Bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
• Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Liberal Bias or Sensational Journalism?