{"id":11489,"date":"2014-07-17T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=11489"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:13:09","slug":"bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/bias\/","title":{"rendered":"English \/ Language Arts: Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Bias is manifest in texts when authors present particular values as if they were universal.\u00a0 For example, bias can be conveyed in the media through the selection of stories, sequence, and slant in newscasts;\u00a0the placement or omission of stories in newspapers; who is interviewed and left out in radio or\u00a0television talk shows and news programs; the advertisements on webpages, television, magazines,\u00a0radio shows targeted at specific audiences; the lyrics of commercial jingles and popular music, and the images displayed with them in\u00a0broadcast commercials and music videos; the goals, procedures, and the rules of video games.”
\nSource:\u00a0\u00a0Crossing the Information Highway: The Web of Meanings and Bias in Global Media<\/a>,
\nLadislaus Semali, December 2002, readingonline.org<\/p>\n

“To me, the two main biases that affect television news are a bias toward simplicity – stripping a story of its necessary nuance – and toward sensationalism, making a story that really isn’t that important seem as if it is. Those are the two primary and most deleterious biases operating in television news today.” Media critic\/reporter Eric Burns from\u00a0Sept.12, 2006 interview<\/a><\/p>\n