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General rather than specific bias

I believe this article focuses too strongly on whether there is political or other type of bias in the media rather than the way it is biased. For example in the British Newspapers, particularly the tabloids bias and outright lies are introducable as fact and opinion are mixed without any notice. For example a paper might proclaim 'Child molester on trial' and if he were shown to be innocent might proclaim: 'child molester freed' rather than sperating the facts about a man on trial and their opinion of whether he did it in a later editorial.

Regardless of politics I think it is clear (from the below) that the media is biased, following the definition that their own journalistic standards are not followed (eg fact checking). This is shown to be the case (UK) in that most libel trials go against (British) newspapers (If this were added I would find the source but for a period in the 80's the paper 'The Sun' was infamous for never having won a libel trial in its history). In my own sphere of work also which is very specialised the papers usually get their facts wrong when reporting it which results on various 'calls' being made by them to fix issues which dont exist. - omricon posted 2 January 2007.

Media Bias Article Critique

Critiquing the Efforts to correct bias: One thing about this section of the article is that they start off this section almost blindly. There is no introduction or anything really to lead into how to correct bias. This part of the article had tons of relative information to the media bias topic, but in this specific part it gave more examples of how media bias occurs than how to correct it. It supplies examples of things that need to be fixed in order to correct media bias, but doesn't give full answers on how we are supposed to correct it as a whole. While it does give some ways to correct bias, I feel as though there could be more. It talks mainly about just news organizations and how they can correct bias, but not all media outlets. It may not include all media outlets that can be bias, such as social media and things as the like, but they may be because a lot of the information is outdated in this section. The information provided dates back to 2005 and 1991. There are no examples of how to correct media bias that is dated within the last 10 years. It also only brings up other country's media bias briefly. I feel as though this section could have a lot more up to date information. Other than the downsides of this article that I have stated, there is a substantial amount of useful and reliable information with good sources and direct quotes from organizations and people. There are just some aspects that could make this article better. BriSprague (talk) 00:59, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In its effort to be neutral, the article posts an image that leaves the impression that media is uniformly biased between liberal and conservative in US (the PEW research image), but in fact more recent source from same research organization paints a different image - the bias is real. [1] In itself, since this is an encyclopedia with a long term view, this is not a major concern. A second point: US is not the only place that has media; this article could use input from sources that reflect other countries, and I'm wondering if this article should not be linked to Freedom of the press article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.64.47 (talk) 15:04, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD related to this topic

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metropolitan bias. It involves a topic which has been suggested to merge here. --Netoholic @ 18:37, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Netoholic: Hi, I am quite new, from Switzerland and interested in media bias and populistic parties. Seen that the article you are referring to is archived. Interested to pick up again this topic here? --0e7s (talk) 18:47, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Outside USA

Article as of now is mainly covering USA. What about adding a new section covering countries outside USA. Comming from Switzerland I could provide input on Europe. Interested?--0e7s (talk) 18:51, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have found on AfD talk [2] the following study:

worlds of journalism
ZHAW Prof Vinzenz Wyss: international study on journalism 2014 – 2016 (only in german) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0e7s (talk • contribs) 18:58, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- BAZ: Gefährlich schreiben 18.11.2017
- TA: Fast drei Viertel aller SRG-Journalisten sind links 12.11.2017 --0e7s (talk) 19:05, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Scholarly treatment..." section too long

Scholarly treatment in the United States and United Kingdom not useful, too long, then I noticed this: -- "This section may be in need of reorganization..."

So Make useful by adding a table of contents? Example, paragraph: "American Enterprise Institute study the coverage of economic news by looking at a panel of 389 U.S. newspapers...." to: American Enterprise Institute on economics — looks at 389 U.S. newspapers.

Or, just add that bold to the start of each paragraph for skimming? Cheers!
--2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B (talk) 19:47, 4 November 2018 (UTC)Doug Bashford[reply]