Weekly Example of Media Bias - October 29, 2014
NOTE: A news agency (The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse [AP, Reuters, AFP]) is an organization of journalists established to supply (sell) news reports to news organizations from around the world: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service. The major news agencies generally prepare hard news stories and feature articles that can be used by other news organizations with little or no modification, and then sell them to other news organizations. Many news articles in U.S. news outlets are AP stories (and Reuters and AFP).
1. Why is it important for the media to provide accurate headlines for every news article?
2. Why do you think the Associated Press, AFP and BBC chose the headlines they used?