Pick Two Television News Programs,and Watch Them for One Week

question 37

Essay

Pick two television news programs,and watch them for one week.Consider biases that you note in their coverage.What are the difficulties in determining bias? How can they be overcome?

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Definitions:

Information-Processing Theorists

Scholars who study how humans mentally process information from their environment, drawing analogies with computer processing.

Short-Term Memory

The part of the memory system where information is stored for a short duration, typically seconds to minutes, without rehearsal.

Information-Processing Theorists

Scholars who study how humans mentally process and store information, drawing analogies to computer processing.

Precausal Reasoning

A type of thinking observed in young children where they make causal inferences that are not based on conventional logic or a clear understanding of cause and effect.