Bias In The Newspaper

1. Bias through pictures/graphic - camera angles, captions.
2. Word choice and tone in the body of the text.
3. Choice of writer (journalist) and sources - who is writing and what there beliefs are and who they have got their information from.
4. Where the article is in the paper - prominent or hidden.
5. Bias through omission or selection - whether an article is even published or not.
6. Choice of headline.
7. Use of names and titles (terrorist or freedom fighter).
8. Bias through statistics and crowd count (hundreds injured or only minor injuries).

Below are example of Bias in Britain's top newspapers; Daily Mail and The Sun. In the Daily Mail, we have the bias through statistics, stating that "tens of thousands" a number so large and quite clearly uncountable in the context of NHS meltdown, that it is obviously bias. In the Sun, we have bias through headline and through the pictures and graphics used. The fact that the headline contains the words "crash" and "wallies" adjacent to a 'low shot' picture of Corbyn illustrates how the Sun is aiming to be anti-labour and to portray the disasters of the Labour party.