Combating Plagiarism by
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Politics is not the only source of bias to watch out for. Also beware of the following:
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Commercial Bias News that is sponsored by businesses promoting their products. |
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Temporal Bias In order to capture attention, “Breaking News” is featured prominently, while less recent content is made less visible. |
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Visual Bias Images evoke emotional responses. Consider any visual content and whether it’s designed to make you feel one way or the other. |
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Sensationalism Scandalous or otherwise emotionally-charged stories attract readers by overtly emphasizing negativity. |
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Narrative Bias While news reports may follow a plot line from beginning to middle to end, that is most likely not how events unfolded in real life. |
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Fairness Bias Opposing points of view will often be presented in the interest of fairness, but intentionally or otherwise, one viewpoint will be given undue weight. |
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Expediency Bias To meet deadlines, journalists may interview experts who they have already talked to on multiple occasions. This may bias the coverage to those experts’ points of views. |
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"Money Bag" by gira Park is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 US)
"Ephemeral" by Matt Brooks is in the public domain (CC0)
"Eye" by Edward Boatman is in the public domain (CC0)
"Senses" by Kyle Berryman is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 US)
"Anecdote" by Marion Lachaise is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 US)
"Scale" by Erik Vullings is in the public domain (CC0)
"Stopwatch" by Gregor Cresnar is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 US)
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