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  2. Missing white woman syndrome - Wikipedia

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    e. Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists [1] [2] [3] and media commentators to denote disproportionate media coverage, especially on television, [4] of missing-person cases toward white females compared to those males or females of color. The syndrome also encompasses disproportionate media attention to females who ...

  3. NPR controversies - Wikipedia

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    On April 9, 2024, The Free Press published an essay [21] by NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner in which he criticized NPR for having "coalesced around the progressive worldview". Berliner contended that NPR had lost America's trust by representing only a narrow segment of the U.S. population in its coverage.

  4. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Racism has been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against "racial" or ethnic groups throughout the history of the United States. Since the early colonial era, White Americans have generally enjoyed legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights which have been denied to members of various ethnic ...

  5. Al Jazeera controversies and criticism - Wikipedia

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    Al Jazeera has faced considerable criticism and backlash in Egypt and other Arab countries; from ordinary people, media outlets, and governments who accuse it of supporting Qatari agenda and Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood Al Jazeera has been criticized by an Egyptian newspaper for its allegedly-biased coverage of news related to Egypt and its government.

  6. Bias - Wikipedia

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    Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events, the stories that are reported, and how they are covered. The term generally implies a pervasive or widespread bias violating the standards of journalism , rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article ...

  7. Wikipedia:Systemic bias - Wikipedia

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    This essay addresses issues of systemic bias specific to the English Wikipedia. As a result of systemic bias , Wikipedia underrepresents the perspectives of people in the Global South , people who lack adequate access to the internet or a serviceable computer, and people who do not have free time to edit the encyclopedia.

  8. Once Upon a Time in America - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $5.5 million [4] Once Upon a Time in America ( Italian: C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 epic crime film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The film is an Italian–American [3] venture produced by The Ladd Company, Embassy International Pictures, PSO ...

  9. News media in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is the primary non-profit television service, with 349 member public broadcasters. News and public affairs programs include PBS NewsHour, Frontline, and Washington Week. In September 2012, PBS rated 88% above CNN in public affairs programming, [1] placing it competitively with cable news outlets [2] but far ...