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Balancing Bias In The Media, Sharon Beder
Balancing Bias In The Media, Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder
The news is presented to give the impression it is factual, uncoloured by journalistic bias, so each side of a controversy is accurately reported. This paper outlines the way that the influence of editors, owners, advertisers – as well as journalistic conventions – are more important to the final result of journalism than the reporting skills or biases of individual journalists.