| This is how you get a biased story.
Suppose the government releases some economic figures. There's two ways to write a story depending on whether or not the reporter/editor has a conservative or liberal bias.
Let's say that for the past month sales of new cars was 1.5% higher than the prior month. Two ways to report this?
"Sales of new cars climb 1.5% last month."
"Sales of new cars were 15% lower last month than a year ago."
One has a positive spin; the other has a negative spin. Same news; different way of reporting it to either make the government in power look good or look bad. That's your so-called 'liberal' or 'conservative' bias at work. |