Title: Media Bias | Boundless Political Science
Headings: Media Bias
Media Bias
Media Bias
Learning Objectives
Key Takeaways
Key Points
Key Terms
Introduction
History of Bias in Mass Media
Types of Bias
Efforts to Correct Bias

Content: Media Bias | Boundless Political Science
Media Bias
Media Bias
Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers in the selection of events and stories that are reported, and how they are covered. Learning Objectives
Summarize the different types of bias affecting journalism and various attempts to correct them
Key Takeaways
Key Points
Political bias has been a feature of the mass media since its birth following the invention of the printing press. Historians have found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. Like newspapers, the broadcast media—radio and television—have been used as a mechanism for propaganda from their earliest days, a tendency made more pronounced by the initial ownership of the broadcast spectrum by national governments. The most commonly discussed forms of bias occur when the media support or attack a particular political party, candidate, or ideology; however, other common forms of bias exist, including advertising bias, corporate bias, mainstream bias, sensationalism, and concision bias. A technique used to avoid bias is the round table, an adversarial format in which representatives of opposing views comment on an issue. This approach theoretically allows diverse views to appear in the media. Another technique used to avoid bias is disclosure of affiliations that may be considered a possible conflict of interest. This is especially apparent when a news organization is reporting a story with some relevancy to the news organization itself or to its ownership individuals or conglomerate.