POL369Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Selection Bias, Feeding Frenzy, September 11 Attacks
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Tom groeling (2013) media bias by the numbers: challenges and opportunities in the empirical study of partisan news, annual review of political science. Majority of people do not rely on the news media to deliver straight facts . Fox as an old and traditional news outlet with a clear opinion. Groeling thinks this is destructive for the long-term growth of a country. Definition of media bias: the influence of journalists, or prejudice in the way they deliver their news. Groeling"s definition of media bias: portrayal of reality that is systematically and significantly distorted (for one political party or another). How it is biased: the news chooses which stories to cover and how to cover them. Selection bias: news media can not cover every story in the world, so they choose which they want to cover, therefore not all stories are included or published. Skews the choices of the events or information presented. Presentation bias: skews the content of the stories.
