Weekly Example of Media Bias - October 28, 2009
1. What type of bias is the excerpt an example of?
2. The Guardian explained that the names of Jewish recipients Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin had been left out of the list of Nobel Prize winners because of a glitch in the entering of data in the Nobel listings. The Guardian has been accused of being anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian. Do you think it was a glitch that neither the reporter nor editor noticed when proofreading, or were the Jewish Peace Prize recipients intentionally left out by The Guardian? Explain your answer.