Question

Three major events happen in one day: a Republican politician makes a statement about immigration, a Democratic politician makes a statement about immigration, and a protest group makes a statement about immigration. The producers of the KRSTZ radio program choose to cover only one of these stories. What kind of bias do they show?

bias by omission
unintentional bias
inevitable bias
It depends completely on what the events were, so there is not enough information to tell.
bias by omission and bias by arrangement

Answer 1

@shadow would you mind taking a look at this one whenever you get a chance? I have an idea but don’t want to mislead anyone

Answer 2

Bias by omission is leaving something out, essentially the other side(s) of the story.

Unintentional bias seems to be anonymous with implicit bias, which is something both native and nurtured. A white person interviewing people for a job will implicitly trust another white person because that's the people he trusted growing up (parents, siblings, extended family, neighborhood, etc).

I could not know what inevitable bias or arrangement by bias is, nor could I find a proper definition. The first is likely bias that is bound to happen, and the second is simply the positioning of elements providing support to a particular entity (having a Democrat go first in the debate, indicating leadership).

Answer 3

I would side with bias by omission here, since it is something you heavily see in media, as far as politics go. When you leave out the stances, opinions, and facts, which support a certain side, you are biased against them by omitting their place in a segment.

Answer 4

This may be unintentional. Perhaps the radio program only had time for one story, yet this is unlikely.