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.
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
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