The most commonly discussed forms of bias occur when the media
support or attack a particular political party, candidate, or ideology,
but other common forms of bias include
- Advertising bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please advertisers.
- Corporate bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please corporate owners of media.
- Mainstream bias, a tendency to report what everyone else is reporting, and to avoid stories that will offend anyone.
- Sensationalism,
bias in favor of the exceptional over the ordinary, giving the
impression that rare events, such as airplane crashes, are more common
than common events, such as automobile crashes.
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