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-Read the excerpt below from the "Best of the Web" post by OpinionJournal.com's editor James Taranto (original post date 3/7/11).
-Read "Types of Media Bias" in the right column. Then answer the questions.
“After years of claiming presidential immunity to avoid legal proceedings, [Former French President] Jacques Chirac is finally facing a court,” the Associated Press’s Jamey Keaten reports. That sentence could have done without the “finally,” which strikes us as a bit of anti-Chirac editorializing. But the second paragraph is much worse:
The former president, a bugaboo for George W. Bush during his rush to war in Iraq, on Monday becomes France’s first former head of state to go on trial since its Nazi-era leader was exiled.
“Rush to war” is unmistakably anti-Bush, but calling Chirac a “bugaboo”–an imagined or exaggerated object of fear–manages to insult Chirac as well, by suggesting that he was of little importance even when he was president of France.
Read the origianl post at opinionjournal.com. (scroll halfway down to “Accountability Journalism”)
To accurately identify different types of bias, you should be aware of the issues of the day, and the liberal and conservative perspectives on each issue.
Types of Media Bias:Questions
1. Define editorialize.
2. The definition for which “Type of Media Bias” is similar to the term ‘editorialize’?
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers.
Answers
1. editorialize – to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts (from Merriam-Webster Dictionary, m-w.com) OR to express a personal opinion, especially when you should be giving a report of the facts only (from dictionary.cambridge.org)
2. The definition of spin is similar to editorialize.
