Title: What Is News Media Bias? (Cognitive Bias)
Headings: News Media Bias
News Media Bias
Commercial Bias
Temporal Bias
Visual Bias
Narrative Bias
Fairness Bias
Test on Biases, Fallacies, and Other Cognitive Effects
See Also
"Using Numbers in Texting"

Content: Unfortunately, the things that govern our lives (e.g., politics, policy and laws) do not make interesting pictures – unlike the milk float that fell off a bridge onto someone's shed. Narrative Bias
The news media likes stories. Ideally, a story should have some goodies, some baddies, a start, a middle and an end. If a news story doesn't have these components, journalists have a tendency to create them by forcing structure into the story or by tuning their language and coverage to demonise one of the participants. It gets worse. Once the storyline has been set, updates are forced into the narrative. After the story, the news media requires some time to lapse (what I like to call the "goldfish pause") before it can reinvent the participants in new roles. As a result, news that contradicts the storyline is less likely to be aired until after the "goldfish pause". Fairness Bias
The act of trying not to be biased creates a bias. ( No one said remaining impartial was going to be easy!)