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: What Is News Media Bias? ( Cognitive Bias)
News Media Bias
The news media can be affected by some powerful biases. "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." (Third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826)
This quote is meant to entertain, and it obviously overstates the case against the news media. However, there is a lot of truth in the old adage "don't believe everything you read." "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.