Okay, it is evident that one can really not attempt to watch anything without some sort of bias...I do not feel that there is anything wrong with that. We are humans and it is in our nature to have our own opinions. I came across a website called dirtyd.com. It is a website about the Dallas social scene, sort of a spin of perezhilton.com. As I was going through the site, it was obvious purely bias.
The site had pictures of people i knew and people I have seen out before. Some captions were kind of funny, not too mean...others were pretty vicious. "What a hippo" "Attention Dallas plastic surgeons, help these people!" etc.
The point I am trying to get across is this. There is bias in every medium we look at. In the news it is pretty much in the viewers discretion to decide whether or not to take everything word for word. In mediums such as this DirtyD.com, it is obvious it is the creaters bias. The audience can laugh and probably will, until they see their face on it with some horrible caption.
Bias can make or break opinions about people or events. It is crazy how some one speaking about an event or person with a slight opinion of their own, can sway another. I thought that this dirtyD.com website fit into our bias discussions because it was one, with all bias opinions and its good to see and realize that.
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A perfect example of structural bias -- you get a lot more attention when you are a little snarky on a blog like the one you are discussing. People love to read that sort of thing!! But is it biased? Yes!!
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