7/2/12

Bias in Media

 This week we learned alot of things, first of all we learned what BIAS mean, then after we learned  the meaning of BIAS we started connecting this term with the IB topic we are covering, which is Mass media and communication .As we see in the following image you get that media and the BIAS are confusing the people with the amount of different points of view to the same new they are showing.


Next we learned how the BIAS is used in the typical mass media, like TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, etc...
We also learned the kind that BIAS is used in this forms of Mass media particularly in News, there's eight kinds that BIAS can be in news, theres: Bias through selection and omission, Bias through placement, Bias by headline, Bias by word choice or tone, Bias by photos, captions and camera angles, Bias through use of names and titles, Bias through statistics and crowd counts and finally Bias by source control.
Finally at the end of the week we did a reading  comprehension to prepare the next week's test.

The conclusion i can make is that, theres so much places where the bias is involved, this last days i try to get how media uses the media in the news, all mornings i watch TV and i notice that theres alot of information that is influenced by BIAS, the TV channels like Chilevision, TVN or Canal 13, ALWAYS use BIAS, they modificate this so the person, or people get watched like a good, or like a bad person. The most clear and concrete example for what im saying is the case of Ines Perez, she is a normal mother that gets interviewed by a Chilevision's reporter and he decides to show just the bad part of the video, she got bullied by the media and the social networks just because Chilevision edited the video to get a bad point of view from people at their homes.



EDITED  video of Ines Perez:




After this video you start thinking, she is a really bad person, how can he discriminate like that. BUT then you see this:




And then you say... How can the media adulterate the information like that.
This at my point of view is the best example to show how media uses BIAS every single day.