{"id":63000,"date":"2022-07-03T06:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63000"},"modified":"2022-07-03T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:36:46","slug":"33-problems-with-media-in-one-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63000","title":{"rendered":"33 Problems With Media In One Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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33 Problems With Media In One Chart<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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One of the hallmarks of democratic society is a healthy, free-flowing media ecosystem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In times past, that media ecosystem would include various mass media outlets, from newspapers to cable TV networks. Today, the internet and social media platforms have greatly expanded the scope and reach of communication within society.<\/p>\n

Of course,\u00a0journalism<\/strong>\u00a0plays a key role within that ecosystem. High quality journalism and the unprecedented transparency of social media keeps power structures in check\u2014and sometimes, these forces can drive genuine societal change. Reporters bring us news from the front lines of conflict, and uncover hard truths through investigative journalism.<\/p>\n

That said,\u00a0as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley and Carmen Ang detail below,<\/a>\u00a0these positive impacts are sometimes overshadowed by harmful practices and negative externalities occurring in the media ecosystem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The graphic above is an attempt to catalog problems within the media ecosystem as a basis for discussion. Many of the problems are easy to understand once they\u2019re identified. However, in some cases, there is an interplay between these issues that is worth digging into. Below are a few of those instances.<\/p>\n

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Explicit Bias vs. Implicit Bias<\/strong><\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, bias in media breaks down into two types: explicit and implicit.<\/p>\n

Publishers with\u00a0explicit biases<\/strong>\u00a0will overtly dictate the types of stories that are covered in their publications and control the framing of those stories. They usually have a political or ideological leaning, and these outlets will use\u00a0narrative fallacies<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0false balance<\/strong>\u00a0in an effort to push their own agenda.<\/p>\n

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33 Problems With Media In One Chart One of the hallmarks of democratic society is a healthy, free-flowing media ecosystem. In times past, that media ecosystem would include various mass media outlets, from newspapers to cable TV networks. Today, the internet and social media platforms have greatly expanded the scope and reach of communication within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5243,3034,462,512,1426,12504,4318],"class_list":["post-63000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bias","tag-information","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-visual-capitalist","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63001,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63000\/revisions\/63001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}