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: "The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." (American writer Al Franken)
Here are some of the best-known biases affecting the news media: Commercial Bias
The first thing to remember when consuming news is that the news media is a business. It makes money from advertisers, whose payments are proportional to the number and quality of viewers it can reach. Public services (like the BBC) are not funded by advertisers, but they too need high viewing numbers to justify their existence. The bottom line is that the news media needs viewers. What attracts viewers? Interesting stories. Unfortunately, bad-news stories (e.g., conflict, crime, disaster) are far more interesting than good-news stories.