Monday, 20 November 2017

Bias in Newspaper

How Can You Spot Bias in a Newspaper?

8 Key words

1) Bias through choice of photos caption and camera angles
  - Does the person look empowered? Weak? Foolish? etc

  - For example, Jeremy here is portrayed in a\ bad way as they have edited him into a bin highlighting there hate towards him.

2) Bias through placement
  - Is it on the front page or hidden on page 15? How long/thorough is this article?

 - For example here a right wing paper has put an anti left wing topic front page to emphasize there hatred of them.




3) Bias through word choice and tone
 - is it sympathetic or critical

4) Bias through headlines - what is the headline article and how is the article pitched through the headline?

5)Bias through source control - who have they inter


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