Media
Manipulation
The media is manipulated in all manners, for example through
professional public relations (PR), and covert and overt government propaganda
which disseminates propaganda as news. What are often deemed as credible news
sources can often knowingly or unknowingly be pushing political agendas and
propaganda.
Media manipulation is a series of related techniques in
which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular
interests.[1]
Such tactics may include the use of logical fallacies
and propaganda
techniques, and often involve the suppression of information or points of view
by crowding them out, by inducing other people or groups of people to stop
listening to certain arguments, or by simply diverting attention elsewhere.
BIAS IN NEWS
Media bias is the bias of journalists
and news producers
within the mass media
in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are
covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias
contravening the standards of journalism, rather than
the perspective of an individual journalist or article. The direction and
degree of media bias in various countries is widely disputed.
Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of
journalists to report all available stories and facts, and the requirement that
selected facts be linked into a coherent narrative.
The most commonly discussed forms of bias occur when the
media support or attack a particular political party, candidate, or ideology,
but other common forms of bias include
- Advertising bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please advertisers.
- Corporate bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please corporate owners of media.
- Mainstream bias, a tendency to report what everyone else is reporting, and to avoid stories that will offend anyone.
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