Ideology and bias in the media

2.  You must be able to define the concept bias
in the media.
 You should be able to explain why a source
can be biased.
 Amazing if you can provide your own
examples of biased news taken from a British
newspaper.

3.  What does ideology mean?
 What does hegemonic ideology mean?
 Who developed the ideas of ideology and
cultural hegemony? Explain and
contextualise.

4. Ideology
Bias
Credible source

5. KeyTerm Your Definition Official Definition
Ideology
Bias
Credible source

6. KeyTerm Your Definition Official Definition
Ideology
A system of values and
beliefs characteristic of
a social group or
individual.
Bias
Credible source

7. KeyTerm Your Definition Official Definition
Ideology
A system of values and
beliefs characteristic of
a social group or
individual.
Bias
Inclination or prejudice
for or against someone
or something.
Credible source

8. KeyTerm Your Definition Official Definition
Ideology
A system of values and
beliefs characteristic of
a social group or
individual.
Bias
Inclination or prejudice
for or against someone
or something.
Credible source
Person or organisation
which provides reliable
information.

17.  Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a cartoon in the Daily Mail by Stanley
McMurtry ("Mac") linked the European refugee crisis (with a focus on Syria in
particular) to the terrorist attacks, and criticised the European Union immigration
laws for allegedly allowing Islamist radicals to gain easy access into the United
Kingdom.
 Despite being compared to Nazi propaganda by The NewYorkTimes, and being
criticised as "reckless xenophobia" and “racist”, the cartoon received praise on
the Mail Online website. A Daily Mail spokesperson told The Independent: "We are not
going to dignify these absurd comments which willfully misrepresent this cartoon apart
from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader".
 KateAllen, the director of Amnesty International UK, told The Independent: "The Daily
Mail's cartoon is precisely the sort of reckless xenophobia that fuels the self-same fear
and hate loved by those responsible for the atrocities in Paris, Beirut, Ankara and
elsewhere."

18.  Its depiction of asylum seekers was discussed in the
Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights in 2007.
 In February 2017, the EnglishWikipedia banned
the Daily Mail as an "unreliable source" to use as a
reference in Wikipedia. Its use as a reference is now
"generally prohibited, especially when other more
reliable sources exist".[12][170] Support for the ban
centered on "the Daily Mail's reputation for poor fact
checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication".[12]

19.  Geordie Greig to be new Daily Mail editor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-
44404045
 Daily Mail prepares for change of Brexit
tone under new editor
https://www.ft.com/content/b706c2c0-a0ac-
11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce36e4

22.  https://www.facebook.com/stopfundinghate/videos/351553371848
666/?pnref=story
 http://stopfundinghate.org.uk
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37035283/stop-funding-
hate-campaign-urges-companies-to-drop-newspaper-adverts

23. After years of instrumentalising the
topic of immigration and fuelling
hate against all types of
immigrants, including war
refugees, in order to support the
arguments of the Brexit
campaigners, the Daily Mail
attempts to detach itself from the
tragic consequences of its own
demagogy.
The Daily Mail has a history of
support to ultra right-wing
ideologies (like German and British
Nazism during the 1930s) as well as
publishing stories they knew false.
The Daily Mail has been widely
criticised for its unreliability, for
printing sensationalist and
inaccurate scare stories of science
and medical research, as well as for
copyright violations.

24.  Search in two different newspapers the same
news or story.
 Compare both versions.What is similar? What is
different?
 Is there any bias on those different versions of
the same story?
 Explain where have you found the bias and
explain why you think that the news are biased.