Examples Of Bias In The Media

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Bias in media In the media it is expected that the articles are true, however; in some cases authors twist the truth to change the reader’s perspective. This can be seen quite obviously in the article ‘Party crawl turns ugly’ which was published in the Townsville Bulletin by Kate Higgins in early November. Within this article both language and structural features have been used in order to convince the audience that teenagers who party are all uncontrollable. Higgins’ article from November 12th 2012 shows bias towards all teenagers, especially those who attend parties. The language features used throughout the article ‘Party crawl turns ugly’ is bias and portrays teens in a negative form. Emotive language is shown when Kate Higgins refers to teenagers jumping fences, throwing rocks, entering into people’s property and trashing the streets. Higgins has also used over exaggeration and intensifiers within her article as she suggest that there was over 200 intoxicated youths. Also as you can see on the PowerPoint almost all of the interviews that were published were those which mocked or criticized the teens. There was only one interview which was…show more content…
The particular news piece portrays teenagers in a negative method by the use of language and structural features. Higgins has written her article in a criticising way in order for the readers to perceive all teens as destructive and out of control. The language features that have been included in the article are, negative emotive language, intensifiers and exaggeration. Whereas, the structural features that were used include the use of bolding specific information and the general order of the information. Due to these factors the article ‘Party crawl turns ugly’ by Kate Higgins, which was published in the Townsville Bulletin is a bias

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