Thursday 9 January 2014

Biased

Bias through use of names: News media often use labels and titles to describe people, places and events. A person can be called "ex-con"or be referred to as someone "who served time twenty years ago for a minor offence.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536278/Spectacular-photographs-moment-Niagara-Falls-FROZE-polar-vortex-saw-record-breaking-temperatures-tourist-mecca.html 



Bias through statistics and crowd counts:



Bias source control: "Record breaking". This doesn't identify the source or which record it is breaking. This is to make the audience assume this is the worst its ever been. This isn't justified



Bias through headline: 



Bias through word choice and tone: 



Bias through placement:




bias though selection and omission:

No comments:

Post a Comment