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[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's a short article on perceived bias. The main points:

There were two mechanisms at work here:

1.The truth is black and white: partisans generally thought that the truth about the Arab-Israeli debate was black and white. Any hint of shades of grey in the news reports was interpreted by partisans as bias towards the other side. In other words: any balanced report will seem biased to partisan viewers.
2.The news report was too grey: as well as thinking the Arab-Israeli issue was either black or white, partisans also perceived that the specific news report they watched was too grey.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/02/why-the-media-seems-biased-when-you-care-about-the-issue.php

Posters here are always yammering about MSM bias. Does anyone have any other articles about this topic?

[The Happy Warrior]

This is why calling out peoples' bias on the board is fairly unhelpful. Fun, but not necessarily productive.

[rocket_scientist]

Hi Yata,

I don't like article much, its a little too simple. I think what they are saying is that anything you don't see as supportive of your viewpoint is biased and that means biased against you. If a newspaper agreed with my view point I would then consider that newspaper neutral and objective.

I feel somewhat over my head - I'm not really certain what journalism is nor can I explain what truth is. Is journalism a public good? A business? What kind of business is it? Gossip business? We really have gossip journalism but how much of real journalism is gossip? Why do newspapers take positions? Is that position something we should know and if so, why? How much profound wisdom can you impart in 400 word column? Spinoza et al had to write for decades to be considered smart.
How much of journalism is trolling? Was Cronkite biased?

Concept of paper of record
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Gazettes = public notice

Why do we have journalism? I think largely to sell ad space else we get NPR. Ill disclude NPR for now.

I'll finish this later.

[rocket_scientist]

Oh, that article has cultural problems. The survey was culturally significant to
Israelis/Arabs and they have a different was of evaluating situations and a different set of ethics. In my opinion, those people are much more accusatory and less accepting and I think it leaves a more drastic effect and result.

[Ya-ta Boy]