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News reporting plays an important role in society, as it is a media for communicating messages and representing the reality to people all over the world. However, different backgrounds and cultures in different countries can result in different ideologies, leading to bias in news reporting.
This essay is going to define and discuss the link between ideology and bias in news reporting through an examination of news reporting concerning the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) from media in Australia, United Kingdom and China. These texts will be analyzed in order to evaluate how different ideologies and biases are manifested in news reports. ... 368), ideology is defined as ˇ§the languages, concepts, categories, imagery of thought and system of representation that allow different classes and social groups to utilize so as to understand and figure out the way society worksˇ¨. ... Those concepts can be found in the news reporting. ...
News is very often the outcome, or the production of journalistˇ¦s individual ideological background. ... 86-87) wrote that,
ˇ§It [news] is a construction by journalists. News coverage is triggered of course by actual occurrences. But what we see presented as news are not the events themselves. ... ˇ¨
Bias is an opinion disguised as a fact. Schrank (1978) suggests, ˇ§bias is a delicate attempt to influence opinion and express preference or prejudiceˇ¨. ... Therefore, media bias is developed when journalists choose particular events to represent a message and a certain ideology that they intend to send to an audience through news reporting.
Approximate Word count = 1201
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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