Bias

Bias Through use of names and titles.

News media often use labels and titles to describe people, places and events.

Bias through statistics and crowd counts

To make a disaster seem more spectacular, number can be inflated e.g more than 900 hundred people turned up – Fewer than 1000 people showed up

Bias by source control

To detect bias, always consider where the news item comes from? Is the information supplied by a reporter, an eye witness, police or fire officials ? eg..

Bias by photos captions and camera angels

Bias by headline

Bias by word choice and tone

Bias through selection and omission 

Bias through placement 

Example of bias through headline is the story of mark duggan, in the title they call him a gangster and they have a picture of his looking bad, making him out to be a bad person on the daily mail where on the bbd news website it has picture of him smile and no negative language towards him is used.