Read the example and identify the type of bias it represents. Scenario: More air time: The producer of a morning news show inadvertently dedicates more air time to coverage of her preferred presidential candidate's platform than to the platforms of other candidates who are polling equally well.

Read the example and identify the type of bias it represents. Scenario: Rural representation A journalist who spends most of his time in a metropolitan area travels to a nearby rural community to report on an environmental hazard there. In his report, the journalist describes the community as "a simple, God fearing slice of America."

Read the example and identify the type of bias it represents. Scenario: Climate Caution The social media manager at a national newspaper posts a story about a U.N. climate change report. So that the coverage isn't perceived as biased, she posts a graphic with this caption: "Is climate change man-made? Click here to find out." However, the report's findings present overwhelming evidence that climate change is, in fact, the result of human activity.

Read the example and identify the type of bias it represents. Scenario: Climate Caution A journalist at an online news publication sees early results from a new study that found a brand of chocolate milk might help athletes recover from concussions. The journalist quickly concludes this is an important finding and writes a story with the heading "Groundbreaking study proves chocolate milk cures concussions." After the story is published, however, it becomes clear that the research was deeply flawed and had been funded by a milk company.

What is the very first thing you should do when you believe that you have discovered news media bias?

 The way that journalists approach and organize a story.

1.  All of the people, organizations, documents and other providers of information that are used to put together a news report. 

1. In journalism, the use of words and phrases that affect the audience’s perception of the issue or event being covered. 

1. The failure of a straight news report to present a fair and balanced representation of the event or issue. 

1. The process that news outlets use to decide which issues and events to cover. 

What kind of information is likely to have been verified by an editor or expert before being published, posted or broadcast? SELECT THE 2 THAT APPLY

Information that provokes you-often by using false or distorted information to manipulate your emotions.

Information that is unprocessed, meaning that it has not been analyzed, checked, edited, explained or placed in any context.

Information that informs you, through objective reporting, about local, national and international events, issues and people of significance or interest:

Information that is created to amuse, please, relax, or distract people:

Information that is designed to sell a product or service:

Information that persuades you, ideally through the use of fact-based evidence, to adopt a specific point of view about an issue or event:

Which freedom is protected by the first amendment?

Which freedom is protected by the first amendment?

Which freedom is protected by the first amendment?

Which freedom is protected by the first amendment?

Which freedom is protected by the first amendment?

Which of the following are the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment?

Which TWO of the following are examples of the role played by the First Amendment in American democracy?

Which of the following statements are examples of the press playing a watchdog role? Select TWO

Before the term 'fake news' began to be widely used during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, it referred to a specific type of misinformation. Which of these describes it?

Social media accounts that are either fully or partially automated, meaning that they are controlled by a computer program, rather than a human:

Misinformation that is deliberately created to be false, usually to achieve a desired ideological or political result

Social media content that is designed to get likes and shares, often using deceptive methods such as sharing false claims and fake or out-of-context images.

Misinformation that is entirely made up and is designed to deceive you into thinking that it's real.

Misinformation that takes an image, quote or other piece of content and puts it into a new, false context to change its meaning.

Misinformation that falsely uses a well-known name, brand or logo to fool people into believing that it is authentic content.

Misinformation in which something is altered from the original, such as images that have had content added or removed using photo editing tools

A piece of information that uses humor or exaggeration to critique or mock a person, organization or policy.

Someone who is a specialist in a particular subject:

Someone who was present when an event happened and gives a firsthand account:

In journalism, the people, organizations, documents and other providers of background information that journalists use as the basis of their reporting:

Proof or confirmation of factual accuracy:

Which of the following scenarios can be best described as a conspiracy theory?

Do the characteristics of this scenario fit those of an actual conspiracy or a conspiracy theory? An anonymous social media post shows a complex diagram with map locations, secret codes and grainy photos to claim that hundreds of the most powerful people in society - including billionaires, political leaders, media executives and celebrities are part of a secret group that for decades has been orchestrating tragic events to control people with fear.

Do the characteristics of this scenario fit those of an actual conspiracy or a conspiracy theory? Senior executives at a large corporation use a variety of illegal accounting maneuvers to hide billions of dollars of debt to make the company appear more profitable and keep the stock price up. A second company that provided accounting and records-keeping services to this large corporation destroyed documents and other evidence in an attempt to conceal evidence from government investigators.

Which of the three cognitive biases you just learned about does this FALSE statement best demonstrate? There is no way a tiny little organism like a virus could cause the entire world to shut down. There must be another explanation - a bigger cause of all this.

Which of the three cognitive biases you just learned about does this FALSE statement best demonstrate? Viruses as deadly as the new strain of coronavirus don't just happen naturally. This must have been developed as a biological weapon. That's the only thing that explains why so many people have died.