Weekly Example of Media Bias - April 16, 2008
1. What type of bias is the excerpt below an example of? (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answer.)
2. OPTIONAL: Go to the NY Times' website at nytimes.com and do a search for the following: Michael Monsoor (about a heroic American soldier), and then Abu Ghraib and Haditha (negative stories about American soldiers). Which stories have more written about them? (After entering the search, scroll to the bottom of the results to see how many pages of articles each story generated.)