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: This is because the news media needs to refresh itself constantly to keep itself interesting. The news media is biased towards the present. It knows that, in terms of attracting viewers, a breaking unimportant story outperforms an on-going important story. Visual Bias
Viewers like pictures, and the news media knows it. As a result, a filmable or photographable story will have precedence over one that isn't. 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.