Bias in the News

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by Headline

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by word choice and tone

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by names and titles

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by statistics and crowd counts

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by photos, captions, camera angles

• Bias by word choice and tone

• Bias by source control

What type of Bias is this?

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by headline

• Bias by placement

• Both bias by headline and bias by placement

What type of Bias is this?

Twitter has banned the account of British conspiracy theorist David Icke.

• Bias by names and titles

• Bias by source control

• Bias by selection and omission

• Both bias by names and titles and source control

Bias through names and titles is ..

• The way a person is described or labelled can influence the reader.

  Eg. terrorist or freedom fighter

• The use of words with a positive or negative connotation can strongly influence the reader

• Some details can be ignored and others included to form a different opinion.

• The editor decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

What's the missing word?

Bias through selection and omission is when the editor

ignores some details so as to influence the reader's ____.

 

• bias

• purpose

• facts

• opinion

Bias through placement is when ...

• A media outlet leaves out sources that support an opposing point of view.

   

• The use of words with a positive or negative connotation can strongly influence the reader

• The editor decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

• The way a person is described or labelled can influence the reader.

Bias by headline is when the editor is being deceptive, as their main .............. is to grab attention.

 

• caption

• purpose

• choice

• judgement

Bias through statistics and crowd counts is when the editor ...

• decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

• depicts a person by describing or labelling them so as to influence the reader.

• chooses to ignore or include some details to form a different opinion.

• makes a disaster seem more spectacular (and therefore more newsworthy), numbers can be inflated.