Title: Media bias
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Media bias
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Types of bias
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Scholarly treatment of media bias in the United States and United Kingdom
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Experimenter's bias
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Tools for measuring and evaluating media bias
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Efforts to correct bias
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History of bias in the mass media
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Role of language
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National and ethnic viewpoint
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Anglophone bias in the world media
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Religious bias
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Other influences
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See also
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References
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Further reading
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External links
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Impartial organizations monitoring media bias
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Conservative organizations monitoring liberal bias
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Liberal organizations monitoring conservative bias
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Other blogs and websites about media bias
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Websites/blogs focused on specific media organizations
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Websites/blogs focused on media about or in specific regions
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Other

Content: Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, "Print sources," or NPR . By cross referencing the responses according to primary news source, the study showed that higher numbers of Fox News watchers held certain misconceptions about the Iraq war. The director of Program on International Policy (PIPA), Stephen Kull said, 'While we cannot assert that these misconceptions created the support for going to war with Iraq, it does appear likely that support for the war would be substantially lower if fewer members of the public had these misperceptions.' "
..."balanced" coverage that plagues American journalism and which leads to utterly spineless reporting with no edge. The idea seems to be that journalists are allowed to go out to report, but when it comes time to write, we are expected to turn our brains off and repeat the spin from both sides. God forbid we should attempt fairly assess what we see with our own eyes. " Balanced" is not fair, it's just an easy way of avoiding real reporting...and shirking our responsibility to inform readers. "
' Ken Silverstein, 2008
The Glasgow Media Group carried out the Bad News Studies, a series of detailed analyses of television broadcasts (and later newspaper coverage) in the United Kingdom. ( Eldridge, 2000). Published between 1976 and 1985, the Bad News Studies used content analysis, interviews and covert participant observation to conclude that news was biased against trade unions, blaming them for breaking wage negotiating guidelines and causing high inflation.