Category: Media bias
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Media bias
Canada’s news ban one year later
It’s been a year now since Meta banned Canadian news from its Facebook and Instagram platforms, in response to Canada’s 2023 “Online News Act.” This Act required large “digital news intermediaries” – only Google and Meta met the criteria –…
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Media biasDear Mainstream Media: 4 strikes and you’re out!
Like many of you, I grew up with the mainstream media being a part of our household. We got the Globe and Mail delivered daily;…
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Media biasMisleading us for years: looking back at bias in the US and Canada
Editor’s note: for those who might have thought the radical bias of today’s mainstream press media was only a very recent thing, this 2004 blast…
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Media bias“Conservative” media fails the test
In the lead-up to the Olympics, one New Zealand athlete got more attention than his athletic ability warranted. What drew the media spotlight to him…
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Internet3 simple reasons we believe misinformation
***** Last week I came across a great article in the MIT Technology Review called, “Why Generation Z Falls for Online Misinformation.” The article highlights…
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Media biasProverbs 18:17: the antidote to Fake News
In the era of, not so much fake, but exaggerated, partisan, and selectively reported news, how can we discern the truth of a matter? God…
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Adult non-fictionA call for Christian journalists: an interview (of sorts) with Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky has been many things – the Editor-in-Chief of World magazine, a journalism professor, the author of more than 20 books, and a baseball…
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Media biasOur dangerous diet of clips, tweets, memes, and headlines
We live in a 200-word blog post /140-character tweet /30-second YouTube clip /headline-reading kind of world. People read and watch more than ever, but with…
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Media biasReligious “ghosts” haunt the mainstream media
Back in 2004 a couple of Christian journalists were frustrated at how, in the words of William Schneider: “The press…doesn’t get religion.” So Terry Mattingly…
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HumorEven a talking horse beats quiet convictions
I still remember the day I officially became an expert on everything. Many people go to school for years just to become an expert on…
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InternetWikipedia: reader beware
I recently assigned a group of Grade 7-10 church history students a research project. I observed them as they began their work on their personal…
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Media biasFAKE NEWS: Media gets it wrong about the Bible getting it wrong
This past week, newspapers and other media outlets published articles about how a recent find had disproven the Bible. The Telegraph, The Independent, Express, and…
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Media biasDon’t watch the news, read it!
This first appeared in Reformed Perspective in 2000, and yet the thesis of this article is just as relevant for today’s Internet Age, as entertainment is an…
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Media biasDon’t read the news, read a book!
No, you’re not paranoid, the media really is out to get Christians. In his book How the News Makes Us Dumb, C. John Sommerville argues that…
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Media biasNow YOU are the media
What do you think the public needs to read, hear, and see? If you had your own media outlet what sort of news would you…
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Media biasSomeone, somewhere, said something stupid today
Earlier today someone, somewhere, said something stupid. People saying stupid things isn’t all that unusual, so one might question this story’s newsworthiness, but this particular…
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Media biasLies, Mistakes and Half-truths – 3 types of media bias
“People like you don’t deserve fair treatment!” This wasn’t the sort of statement I expected from our local station’s 11 o’clock news anchor; on camera…