Source: http://www.tolerance.org
25 October 2006

Types

1. Ethnic or racial bias, including racism, nationalism and regionalism.

2. Corporate bias, including advertising, coverage of political campaigns in such a way as to favor corporate interests, and the reporting of issues to favor the interests of the owners of the news media.

3. Class bias, including bias favoring one social class and bias ignoring social or class divisions.

4. Political bias, including bias in favor of or against a particular political party, candidate, or policy.

5. Religious bias, including bias in which one religious viewpoint is given preference over others.

6. Sensationalism, which is bias in favor of the exceptional over the ordinary. This includes the practice whereby exceptional news may be overemphasized, distorted or fabricated to boost commercial ratings; entertainment news is often subjected to sensationalism.

7. Exaggerated influence of minority views: Like sensationalism, this is a tendency to emphasize the new and the different over the status quo or existing consensus. This may be done in an attempt to be "fair", or to find something worth reporting.

PRACTICE
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