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Canada Is Not That Strange And Other Biases | Wednesday | Period 2
As the students walked into class today, they'd seen several stacks of newspapers and magazines at the front of the room. Fraser himself was sitting at his desk, going over some paperwork and giving everyone a chance to settle down and get situated. Once that was done, he stood up and smiled at everyone.
"Welcome back," he greeted politely. "Today, we're going to be talking about media bias. In this country and this day and age, it's especially relevant since the media is pretty much everywhere. Television, print and cyber media affect us at least once a day and sometimes even more than that. We rely on the media for our news and therefore, we're victims of media bias all the time."
He paused and crossed his arms. "Media bias is, basically, the bias within the news media about which stories are reported and how those stories are reported. Within media bias, there are four specific types of biases: advertising, corporate, mainstream and sensationalism. Advertising bias is stories slanted to please advertisers, corporate bias are stories slanted to please businesses, mainstream bias is a tendency to report the same thing as everyone else so you don't offend and sensationalism is a practice that involves giving the impression that rare events, like airplane crashes, are more common than common events."
Fraser motioned to the table of periodicals behind him. "Today, we're going to be looking through several different variations of print media. I want you to see if you can find different examples of media bias. Look for the way the story is reported and which stories are reported across multiple versions. See if the slants are different and try to figure out why they might be reported differently from one outlet to another. If you have any questions, please feel free to come up and ask."
With that, Fraser let them get started.
"Welcome back," he greeted politely. "Today, we're going to be talking about media bias. In this country and this day and age, it's especially relevant since the media is pretty much everywhere. Television, print and cyber media affect us at least once a day and sometimes even more than that. We rely on the media for our news and therefore, we're victims of media bias all the time."
He paused and crossed his arms. "Media bias is, basically, the bias within the news media about which stories are reported and how those stories are reported. Within media bias, there are four specific types of biases: advertising, corporate, mainstream and sensationalism. Advertising bias is stories slanted to please advertisers, corporate bias are stories slanted to please businesses, mainstream bias is a tendency to report the same thing as everyone else so you don't offend and sensationalism is a practice that involves giving the impression that rare events, like airplane crashes, are more common than common events."
Fraser motioned to the table of periodicals behind him. "Today, we're going to be looking through several different variations of print media. I want you to see if you can find different examples of media bias. Look for the way the story is reported and which stories are reported across multiple versions. See if the slants are different and try to figure out why they might be reported differently from one outlet to another. If you have any questions, please feel free to come up and ask."
With that, Fraser let them get started.