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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
I think you are being unfair on this issue. Even if the facts presented
are completely correct, the story can still show a great deal of bias.
For example, I consider the European media's showing of dead Lebanese
due to Israeli bombs all day long on the news T.V. to be biased
reporting, even though the facts of the matter are completely correct.
The bias might be toward showing things that people want to see, or things
that they have film of. Cable news is biased toward telling stories about
sex and murder.
Bias should also be considered by how the matter is presented
contextually. Furthermore the tone (e.g. "experts" as opposed to
"supposed experts") plays a very significant role.
Maybe you can show me a published example of the use of "supposed experts"
or "so-called experts."
In fact, if one believes of oneself that things like the "tone" play no
role in how you perceive a story, you will in fact be particularly
susceptible to this kind of bias.
Of course it plays a role. If I sense a tone, I become doubly skeptical,
but I know that not everyone is a sensible as I am.
Mike
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