News tagged with media bias
Be specific: Perceived media bias can lead to political action
Politicians should be careful when they rail against mainstream news media. A study from North Carolina State University shows that perceived bias of media outlets can lead to increased political engagement – but only ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 13, 2011 |
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Media portrayal of race in sports reveals biases in corporate world
The U.S. may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of those 500 largest companies.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Quality medical journal news releases can help newspapers do a better job informing public
Medical journal press releases are the most direct way that journals communicate with the news media about new research. According to a study in the British Medical Journal, press release quality appears to have an import ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Shipwrecked: Women and children first?
Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the world’s attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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We may be less happy, but our language isn't
"If it bleeds, it leads," goes the cynical saying with television and newspaper editors. In other words, most news is bad news and the worst news gets the big story on the front page.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2012 |
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The perils of 'bite-size' science
Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st-century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics, and culture—for the worse, many say. Now an article in January's Perspectives on Psychological Science, a jour ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Newspapers lose their balance on climate coverage
The first of a two-part analysis of Australian press coverage of climate change, A Sceptical Climate, is based on a comprehensive review of 3971 media articles published in ten Australian newspapers on the topic of climate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Tweeting disasters
Professor John Preston, who is based at the University of East London's Cass School of Education, will tell the ‘Violent Nature’ Research Councils UK debate that Twitter and Facebook have been credited ...
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Wikipedia blocks access to protest Italian media law
Online encylopedia Wikipedia has blocked access to its Italian version to protest a draft law to make websites amend content on even a single complaint of prejudice without independent verification.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Is the true 'wisdom of the crowd' to copy successful individuals?
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published today on crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which varied individual guesses produce uncannily accurate average answers — has shed light on why we have a bias to ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Dolphins, aliens, and the search for intelligent life
How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2011 |
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