Tag: Types Of Media Bias

"Disturbing rise," "serious accusations" — it's important to be aware when journalists use adjectives, so you can decide for yourself whether the descriptor is acceptable.

What are subjective qualifying adjectives, and how do they indicate a bias when reporters use them?

From the Right This piece is from a writer rated Lean Right. On Thursday, some Twitter users pointed out a seemingly strange phenomenon: Googling “mass shooting surge” returned the exact same headline and article from seemingly different sources, with various locations plugged in to...

A common type of media bias seen in the press today is omission of source attribution. A recent Poynter article explored how reporters who used terms like “baseless” or “falsely claimed” often did not include a source to help the reader understand why something was false. Omission of...

Our modern world of media and advertising is shaped by many forces. The strongest and most important of them is attention . Take a minute to think about all the things that you read or clicked on today. What made you choose them out of a thousand others? The term ' attention economy '...

Journalist Bob Woodward’s revelation this week that President Donald Trump privately conveyed his intent to “play [COVID-19] down” in February has commandeered mainstream news, reframing election chatter around Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Outlets on all sides are zooming...

The COVID-19 coronavirus has left many Americans housebound with little to do except keep their eyes on the news, anxious for any sign that the pandemic may be slowing. The tidal wave of reporting on the virus and President Trump's response is a reminder to remain diligent about spotting...

AllSides frequently provides case studies that illustrate how media bias appears. Read more about the 11 Types of Media Bias here . The U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and six others on Jan. 3 in Iraq brought escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran...

It's probably not a stretch to say most of us would prefer to come to our own conclusions about events, rather than being told what to think. But when we don’t know how to spot media bias , we may end up being swayed or manipulated in one direction or the other. A video shared on social...