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News Content: Four Information Biases That Matter

    Madison Papple     Peter Organisciak     CMST 4N03. News Content: Four Information Biases That Matter. Information Bias : a type of news bias that favours simplified, surface details over more complex realities. 4 Biases Personalization Dramatization Fragmentation

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News Content: Four Information Biases That Matter

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  1.     Madison Papple    Peter Organisciak    CMST 4N03 News Content: Four Information Biases That Matter

  2. Information Bias: a type of news bias that favours simplified, surface details over more complex realities. 4 Biases Personalization Dramatization Fragmentation Authority-Disorder Bias Introduction

  3.  Personalized News - “the journalistic bias that gives preference to individual actors and human-interest angles in events over larger insttitutional, social, and political contexts” (Bennett, 2004). Personalization

  4. Downplays the bigger picture, emphasizes key players Creation of the passive audience Main Problem: Shallow portrayal of current events How?  1. The Brand Identity  2. Personal Life Example: Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign Personalization cont.

  5. “News dramas emphasize crisis of continuity, the present over the past or future, and the personalities at their center” (Bennett, 2004). • Flashy headlines and shocking photographs • "Live Action" • Serious social problems lost in the drama • Crises Example: "Tornado cluster kills at least 50 in U.S." Dramatization

  6. 2002 - "In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site." The Bet

  7. Wikipedia wins?!     Why? The Result

  8. the isolation of stories from each other and from their larger contexts (42) individuals over the broader scope erases history by making events self-contained details are brushed aside or retold through archetypal frames Fragmentation

  9. News is preoccupied with order and how is it challenged evening news syndrome: death, mayhem, political crisis, failures in the system, doubt... politicians over policies Concentration on authority figures Example: Huckabee's Happy Spears Is Keeping Her Baby Authority Disorder

  10. Consider these 3 Propositions • Journalists try to simplify complex stories • Journalists try to be (or appear) objective • Journalists must be able to keep stories alive even when there are no new developments Why does it happen?

  11.     Bennett says it doesn’t look good •     Why not? •     But, what about... • Civic Journalism >> Citizen Journalism >> Pro-Am Journalism The Future: Is there hope?

  12.     To Summarize: • News tends to prefer the personalized drama, at the expense of context • These information biases naturally follow current journalistic practices • To change the biases, the method needs to be considered Conclusion

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