Detecting Media Bias

Detecting Media Bias

There are different types of biasness done by the media when broadcasting news due to different reason best known by them. Examples of the way the media portray biasness is through one omission of some part of the article. Secondly biasness through source selection, this is when the media consider one side of the people giving the information and total ignoring the views of the opposite side. Thirdly, biasness is evident through story selection, this involves choosing a portion of the story and neglecting the opposite version of the story that the other group is saying. Fourthly is biasness through placement, which is through how an articles is put on the newspaper so as to downplay what they don't want people to read sometimes through omitting the heading or no clear conclusion of the story given, it is always evident in political stories in the newspapers. The fifth way of biasness from the media is through labeling, it is when reporters do not use the actual words to describe what they are broadcasting instead they use general names to refer to the group of people in question. For example instead of referring to the conservatives as conservatives, they announce something like the experts said or argued. Lastly is biasness by spin, it is whereby the reporters totally uses one interpretation of the story and totally exclude the other or others.

On April 24 2014, some of the networks ignored the IRS scandal that has employees that who do not pay their taxes but got huge bonuses. On Tuesday night, ABC was the only network that acted as the countries watchdog when it decided to report about the big bonuses that the IRS gave to some of its employees despite the fact that they were not paying their taxes. In addition the reporter adds that not only did they receive bonuses but were also added time off. The other two major networks that is NBC and CBS both devoted their news reporting on the world fair 50th anniversary in New York and about other stories. The next morning all the three stations broadcasted about the story on the Internal Revenue Service, however NBC summarized the story in only thirty-one seconds. and CBS used around two and half minutes to report on the story.

The type of media biasness that the two stations NBC and CBS displayed was biasness through story selection and omission. It is evident that the two stations on Tuesday night did not talk