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  2. Media bias - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] The direction and degree of media bias in various countries is widely ...

  3. Media coverage of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

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    The most popular cable network in the United States for news on the war was Fox News, and had begun influencing other media outlets' coverage. [1] At the time, Fox News was owned by Rupert Murdoch, a strong supporter of the war. [2] On-screen during all live war coverage by Fox News was a waving flag animation in the upper left corner and the ...

  4. United States news media and the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The role of the media in the perception of the Vietnam War has been widely noted. Intense levels of graphic news coverage correlated with dramatic shifts of public opinion regarding the conflict, and there is controversy over what effect journalism had on support or opposition to the war, as well as the decisions that policymakers made in ...

  5. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    The Watergate scandal has been credited by some with creating distrust in government and opening the door for a new business tactic for the media that resulted in the spread of negative, dishonest and misleading news coverage of American politics; such examples include the labeling of a large number of political scandals, regardless of their ...

  6. News values - Wikipedia

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    News values are "criteria that influence the selection and presentation of events as published news." These values help explain what makes something "newsworthy." [1] News values are not universal and can vary between different cultures. Among the many lists of news values that have been drawn up by scholars and journalists, some attempt to ...

  7. Media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    Local news has played an important role in keeping communities informed, including in rural areas. Some journalists in the U.S. have been praised for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic including Ed Yong and Helen Branswell. Among media scholars, many elements of mainstream journalists' efforts to adapt to the pandemic and provide reliable ...

  8. Hostile media effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect was originally dubbed "hostile media phenomenon" by Vallone et al., [2] and is occasionally referred to as "hostile media perception," since it seems to precipitate the effects of media. In a 2015 meta-analysis of the subject, [1] Perloff said "hostile media effect" is the most often used term: The most common term is "hostile media ...

  9. Cable news coverage of Trump trial reflects a U.S. divided - AOL

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    When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hush money trial began in a Manhattan courthouse on Monday, cable TV news coverage of the case was as divided as America itself. A Reuters ...