Media bias
Media bias occurs when journalists and news producers show bias in how they report and cover news. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening of the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article. The direction and degree of media bias in various countries is widely disputed.
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 the media in some countries. Politics and media bias may interact with each other; the media has the ability to influence politicians, and politicians may have the power to influence the media. This can change the distribution of power in society. Market forces may also cause bias. Examples include bias introduced by the ownership of media, including a concentration of media ownership, the subjective selection of staff, or the perceived preferences of an intended audience.
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[edit]- …American sociologist George Yancey in his 2015 book “Hostile Environment” focused on American media bias against Christianity and conservative religion in general and found its roots in the fact that mainline U.S. journalism is a self-perpetuating caste. If you are an Evangelical Christian or do not agree with the prevailing liberal and secular ideology, particularly on moral matters, you will be thrown out of the first interview when you will try to be hired by one of the mainline media.
- Massimo Introvigne, "The Anti-Religious, Anti-Cult, and Anti-Tai-Ji-Men Bias in the Media", Bitter Winter (May 2024)
- Serious newspapers publish attacks against minority religions they would be ashamed of printing if they were directed against Catholicism, Judaism, or Islam—without realizing that the doctrines of mainline religions would appear just as strange as those of these smaller groups to those who would encounter them for the first time.
- Massimo Introvigne, "Media Slander Against the AROPL in the UK: Cui Bono?", Bitter Winter (July 19, 2025)
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