Confidential Bias

One of those major factors is the unconscious bias of journalist and It starts with opinion. Political affiliations can also cause objectivity to be difficult, when core values and beliefs are being challenged in a news bulletin. Political alignment and the ideology of political groups can impact a person’s unconscious bias. An example of this would be the very popular political news websites that have emerged over recent decades. These new forms of media have been dominated by personal opinions. Websites like The Punch, Inside Story, The National Times and even the Australian Policy Online have been filled with bias journalism using agenda setting to have an impact on the audience and sometimes even to increase their institution. They’re

It’s a worry to see journalistic resources diverted from making sense of policies and events to commentating on the events of the front page. In Australia, there are hundreds of pieces about the politics of asylum seekers, but not very often has a journalist asked the Malaysian government why they’ve chosen not to sign the Refugee Convention. Rather than endless speculation on the relationship between opinion polls and interest rates, wouldn’t it be worth exploring what an interest rate cut is likely to do to the price of an imported television? Again, this comes down to information inequality caused by the institutions and their ownerships. Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of journalists to report all available stories and facts, and the requirement that selected facts be linked into a coherent narrative. Government influence, including overt and covert censorship, biases of the media in some countries, Market forces that result in a biased presentation include the ownership of the news source, concentration of media ownership, the selection of staff, the preferences of an intended audience, and pressure from advertisers. These factors can all affect the objectivity of the reporter and will even in some ways effect the outcome of the news bulletin weather it has

The news media tends to appeal to a specific audience, which means that stories that affect a large number of people on a global scale often receive less coverage in some markets than local stories, for example one of channel 7’s more recent stories (Qld bomb hoaxer given two years’ probation- A man who planted a fake bomb in a Brisbane park toilet in an attempted prank has been put on probation for two years. This is probably not a story that people living in NZ would be watching, for one reason only Proximity! Similarly, glamorous or shocking stories set in Brisbane, QLD or even Australia are not likely to appear in other countries news unless it involves or affects them. Journalists today aim to target their Audience and to increase their institutions status. Bias is also known to exist in sports broadcasting. Broadcasters have always tended to favour certain teams, usually the teams hailing from their region This was easily demonstrated on the ABC news’s web page in May 2015 when state of Origin was seen as the prime news of Australia ABC demonstrated some of the most obvious bias using statements such as “ Blues finally took back the shield last year” , “Queensland’s luck finally ran out”, “The cane toads under strength and under- mannered” and finally what I found to be the most bias statement of all “ Blues where clearly the better side!”. It is most times not difficult to discover the bias of news