Media's Impact On The Media Impact

Media Impact
“Globally, individuals on average spent 456.1 minutes each day consuming media last year; in 2017.” And it has been expected to rise. The influence of media has greatly affects the young and the uneducated people. Children are impacted through videos or stories that are told. The adults and young adults are influenced through social media. Media has changed over time and changed people’s belief. In today’s society most people believe in a certain way. Media has shaped our perception through bias. Different biases have been shown through media. Some of the biases are bias by omission, bias by labeling, and bias by placement which are commonly used in media.
One bias that plays in media is bias by omission which left out one side of the article or series of articles over a period of time and ignoring facts. This is commonly used on media. Bias by omission can affect people’s perception. “...Bias by omission can occur either within a story, or over the long term as a particular news outlet reports one set of events, but not another.” and this can cause a people to think a certain way especially through a story. In the Serial podcast

For extra info, if the author doesn’t want you to hear will be put in the back of a story needs to be known. Bias by placement occurs more on print than broadcast. Examples on media is when radio hosts talking for 25 minutes on an “important" topic but talks fast on things that they do not want people to hear or should hear. “During the 1989 - 1990 abortion rallies, the Washington Post published a 15-column space of the "pro-abortion" with several stories and articles while only 2 column was about "pro-life" both issues were equally as big”( prezi ). They only wrote column about “pro-life” while the 15. This represented bias by placement going around everywhere in