how to detect bias in the news
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How to Detect Bias in the News. Bias through placement. Page One – Teen shoots man at bus stop!! Page 35 – Teens collect turkeys to serve homeless. Bias through selection and omission. Class choices: British Lit American Lit Not offered: African Literature. Bias by headline. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Bias through placement
• Page One – Teen shoots man at bus stop!!
• Page 35 – Teens collect turkeys to serve homeless
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Bias through selection and omission
Class choices:
British Lit
American Lit
Not offered: African Literature
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Bias by headline
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Bias by photos, captions and camera angles
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Bias through use of names and titles
• Bill Gates the ex con
In 1977 the owner of Microsoft was arrested for driving without a license and not stopping at a stop sign. This wasn’t the first time he got arrested though. In 1975 he was arrested for driving without a license and speeding. In 1989 he was arrested for driving drunk but that charge was reduced later on.
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• Bill Gates the Multimillion Dollar Philanthropist
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Bias through statistics and crowd counts
• Fifty people injured in Air Crash!
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Only 7% of passengers sustained minor injuries
50 out of 700
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• To make a disaster seem more spectacular (and therefore worthy of reading about), numbers can be inflated. "A hundred injured in aircrash" can be the same as "only minor injuries in air crash," reflecting the opinion of the person doing the counting.
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If 714 people were onboard, & 7% were injured this would
mean 50 people
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Bias by source control • To detect bias, always consider where the
news item "comes from."
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Word choice and tone
• Pushy or Assertive?• skinny or slim? • reckless or daring?
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Pretend Magazine
• Please turn the pages of this fake magazine and using your media awareness information sheet see if you can spot bias.
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Memories of Hurricane Katrina
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
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Friday meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the
Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from
collapsing.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent
nearly a half-hour
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Let’s look at teen magazines Page 3
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