Hard News: How the formulas used to make News objective really make them biased

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Hard News How the formulas used to make News
objective really make them biased

• By
• Mike Eckert

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Components of Hard News

• What is Hard News??
• How is it written?
• Who, What, Where, Why, When, How?
• The Inverted Pyramid

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Objectivity

• In theory, Journalists look at each story with an
  objective view
• Is this really possible?
• Papers with bias views
• Insight magazines Liberal Conservative papers
• Liberal New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
  Washington Post
• Conservative Wall Street Journal, Washington
  Times,New York Post

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Conclusion Why this matters?

• How do you read your newspaper?
• 2 sides to every issue