Levasseur, David G. "Media Bias." Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Lynda Lee Kaid, Sage Publications, 2008. Credo Reference, http://proxy.uscupstate.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/sagepolcom/media_bias/0. Accessed 23 Jan 2017.
Bias is defined as prejudice against or in favor of one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Media bias is when journalists, news producers, and news outlets show bias in the selection of events and stories as well as the ways they are reported. Below find explanations of several of the ways in which bias can show up in the media. When you know what to look for you can see a story for what it is.
Things are getting harder to tell the truth, the bias, and the fake... The picture above appeared on social media claiming that the same paper ran different headlines depending on the market...
According to Snopes http://www.snopes.com/wsj-different-trump-headlines/
This is a mix of true and false, True two different headlines False different markets, they are from different editions the early edition after Trump meet with the President of Mexico and seemed to soften his tone the second later in the day when he changed his tone about the wall.
Confirmation Bias
"Confirmation bias, or the selective collection of evidence, is our subconscious tendency to seek and interpret information and other evidence in ways that affirm our existing beliefs, ideas, expectations, and/or hypotheses. Therefore, confirmation bias is both affected by and feeds our implicit biases. It can be most entrenched around beliefs and ideas that we are strongly attached to or that provoke a strong emotional response."
How to Thwart Your Confirmation Bias
From Twenty ways to cultivate an open mind, From Overcoming Bias, A Journalist's Guide to culture & context
