how do you locate bias in newspapers?

Answer 1

mode of address....like if they are talking about war and they say things such as "friendly fire" the selection of language gives it away usually.

Answer 2

I find it difficult to discern bias unless I am very familiar with the topic. I began noticing how some stories from one publication to another left me with different conclusions. When I studied them further I found where and why they differ.

A good example was stories on smoking, death and cancer. If you read an article by someone from an anti-smoking group they will say that 400,000 die from smoking every year. From a medical group it will be 400,000 die from a smoking related disease every year. In fact if someone died at age 80 of a heart attack and they smoked for 2 years when they were a teenager they are counted as a smoking related death.

All stories use the same data, but each look at it differently. The only way to really know is if you have information independent of the stories.

Answer 3

Easy. I think, though I will not pretend to be a media or journalist specialist.

First of all, ask yourself with each article you read, what is the truly factual and documentable content in each article.

Then ask yourself what is the interpretative content in each article.

Then ask yourself how easy does each article's writer make it to discern what is truly fact and what is interpretation.

After that, consider the amount of intellectual dishonesty each article has (measured by how easy it is to seperate fact from interpretation/ easier teh more honest--more difficult, more dishonest.

Then consider which way each intellectually honest article leans and compare it with which ways the dishonest articles lean (within a given paper, magazine, or news show), most likely there will be a decided slant.

Weight much more in bias score towards dishonest/ trying to couch interpretation as fact articles (and check out cited sources as well).

Et Voila

You will probably notice that most media has a decided rightward slant.

Answer 4

when there only using a one point perspective ,only one side not the other,and using certain words that make something look extra good or extra bad.

Answer 5

Usually soon as you see the print .

Answer 6

Buy one.