The Best Paper You'll Read Today: Media Biases and the Public Understanding of Science: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21587/1/Journalistic_Practice%20(11).pdf
This study focuses on three types of misrepresentation: hyperbole where the curators exaggerate or sensationalize claims to garner attention, extremity bias where the curator cherry-picks surprising, novel, or extreme events to report, and fair reporting where the curator weighs evidence from two sides of an issue irrespective of where the preponderance of evidence lies.
This study focuses on three types of misrepresentation: hyperbole where the curators exaggerate or sensationalize claims to garner attention, extremity bias where the curator cherry-picks surprising, novel, or extreme events to report, and fair reporting where the curator weighs evidence from two sides of an issue irrespective of where the preponderance of evidence lies.
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