Bias: Selection and omission

Omission: Someone or something has been excluded

Selection: The action of choosing someone or something as being the best or the most suitable

Bias: Leaving out one side of the article

An editor can express a bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item within a given story, some details can be ignored, and others included, to give readers or viewers a different opinion about the events reported.

For example: If, during a speech, a few people boo, the reaction can be described
as “remarks greeted by jeers” or they can be ignored as “a handful of dissidents.” •
Bias through omission is difficult to detect. Only by comparing news reports from a wide variety of outlets can the form of bias be observed.

Another example may be one news company choosing not to cover a story, where another news company