1. Bias in the News

2. Bias through placement Page One: T EEN SHOOTS MAN AT BUS STOP !! Page 35: Teens collect turkeys to serve homeless

3. Examples of bias through selection and omission High School Class Choices: The Romantics British Lit American Lit N OT OFFERED : African Literature

4. Bias by headline

5. Bias by photos, captions and camera angles

6. Bias through use of names and titles Bill Gates: Arrested and Convicted

7. Bias through use of names and titles Bill Gates: Ex Con? In 1977 the owner of Microsoft was arrested for driving without a license and not stopping at a stop sign. This wasn’t the first time he got arrested though. In 1975 he was arrested for driving without a license and speeding. In 1989 he was arrested for driving drunk but that charge was reduced later on.

8. Bill Gates the Multibillion Dollar Philanthropist

9. Bias through statistics and crowd counts Fifty people injured in Air Crash!

10. Bias through statistics and crowd counts Fifty people injured in Air Crash! Fifty out of how many people? When it says injured, what does that mean? What constitutes a crash?

11. Bias through statistics and crowd counts Only 7% of passengers sustained minor injuries (50 out of 700) Most injuries dealt with whiplash Most severe injury was a major wrist sprain

12. Bias by source control To detect bias, always consider where the news item "comes from."

14. Bias through word choice and tone Pushy or Assertive? Skinny or Slim? Reckless or Daring? Isolated or Shy? Take Charge Attitude or Micromanager

15. Pretend Magazine Please turn the pages of this fake magazine and using your media awareness information sheet see if you can spot bias.

16. Memories of Hurricane Katrina Page 2

17. Memories of Hurricane Katrina Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen) Page 2

18. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli- Palestinian peace talks from collapsing. Page 3

19. Let’s look at teen magazines Page 3

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21. Liberal Media Bias Is this a real thing? Why is this term used?

22. Liberal Media Bias Liberal: open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc. Bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

23. Liberal Bias or Sensational Journalism?