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BIAS!

The Many Forms. BIAS!. Bias through selection and omission. An editor can express bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item. i.e. In order to target a younger crowd, an editor can omit stuff old people would like.

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BIAS!

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  1. The Many Forms BIAS!

  2. Bias through selection and omission • An editor can express bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item. • i.e. In order to target a younger crowd, an editor can omit stuff old people would like. • Within a given story, details can be ignored or included to give readers or viewers a different opinion about the events reported. • i.e. During a speech, a few people boo. This reaction can be described as, “words greeted by boos” or it can be ignored by “a handful of rebels…” • Bias in local news can also be found by comparing reports of the same event as treated in different papers.

  3. Bias Through Placement • Readers of papers judge first-page stories to be more significant than those buried in the back. • Television and radio newscasts run the most important stories first and leave less significant to later. • Therefore, where a story is placed influences what a reader or viewer thinks about its importance. • i.e. A local editor may campaign against the owning of hand guns by giving prominent space to every shooting with a hand gun and gun-related accident in his/her paper. • Some murders and robberies received front-page attention while others receive only a mention on page 20.

  4. Bias by headline • Many people only read the headline of a news item. • The headlines can summarize as well as present carefully hidden bias and prejudices. • They can convey excitement where there was none. • They can express approval or disapproval. • They can steer public opinion. • i.e. “Police Brutality leads to Another African-American Victim” • i.e. “Thunderous applause for Senator Joebob Frank”

  5. Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles • Some pictures flatter a person; others make the person look…unpleasant. • i.e. Presidential campaign pictures • The choice of which visual images to display is extremely important.

  6. Bias through Stats • To make a disaster seem more spectacular (therefore worthy of reading) numbers can be inflated. • i.e. “One hundred injured in train wreck” the same as “Passengers injured in train wreck.” • Crowd counts are notoriously inaccurate and often reflect the opinion of the person doing the counting. • i.e. several thousand if the person agrees with a presenter, a handful if they don’t.

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