Bias in News Report

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by Headline

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by word choice and tone

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CCSS.RL.5.6

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by names and titles

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by statistics and crowd counts

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

What type of bias is this?

• Bias by photos, captions, camera angles

• Bias by word choice and tone

• Bias by source control

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

What type of Bias is this?

• Bias by selection and omission

• Bias by headline

• Bias by placement

• Both bias by headline and bias by placement

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

What type of Bias is this?

Twitter has banned the account of British conspiracy theorist David Icke.

• Bias by names and titles

• Bias by source control

• Bias by selection and omission

• Both bias by names and titles and source control

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Bias through names and titles is ..

• The way a person is described or labelled can influence the reader.

  Eg. terrorist or freedom fighter

• The use of words with a positive or negative connotation can strongly influence the reader

• Some details can be ignored and others included to form a different opinion.

• The editor decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

What's the missing word?

Bias through selection and omission is when the editor

ignores some details so as to influence the reader's ____.

 

• bias

• purpose

• facts

• opinion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Bias through placement is when ...

• A media outlet leaves out sources that support an opposing point of view.

   

• The use of words with a positive or negative connotation can strongly influence the reader

• The editor decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

• The way a person is described or labelled can influence the reader.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Bias by headline is when the editor is being deceptive, as their main .............. is to grab attention.

 

• caption

• purpose

• choice

• judgement

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Bias through statistics and crowd counts is when the editor ...

• decides the importance of a topic by its placement in an article.

• depicts a person by describing or labelling them so as to influence the reader.

• chooses to ignore or include some details to form a different opinion.

• makes a disaster seem more spectacular (and therefore more newsworthy), numbers can be inflated.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6