14 Facts About Media bias

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Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.

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The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening of the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article.

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Examples include bias introduced by the ownership of media, including a concentration of media ownership, the subjective selection of staff, or the perceived preferences of an intended audience.

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Political bias has been a feature of the mass media since its birth with the invention of the printing press.

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An example of supply-driven Media bias is Zinman and Zitzewitz's study of snowfall reporting.

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In Raymond and Taylor's test of weather forecast Media bias, they investigated weather reports of the New York Times during the games of the baseball team the Giants from 1890 to 1899.

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Research about media bias is a subject of systematic scholarship in a variety of disciplines.

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Media bias is studied at schools of journalism, university departments and by independent watchdog groups from various parts of the political spectrum.

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Methods Groseclose and Milyo used to calculate this Media bias have been criticized by Mark Liberman, a professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The idea is to check whether newspapers display some kind of partisan Media bias, by giving more positive or negative coverage to the same economic figure, as a function of the political affiliation of the incumbent president.

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Media bias finds that the Times displays Democratic partisanship, with some watchdog aspects.

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Jonathan M Ladd, who has conducted intensive studies of media trust and media bias, concluded that the primary cause of belief in media bias is media telling their audience that particular media are biased.

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Media are often accused of bias favoring a particular religion or of bias against a particular religion.

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Media bias that try to reach as large an audience as possible use words common to all three languages.

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