| > What do you mean by this? Presumably the sentence that followed your quoted one: > The editorial decisions about what to report, what to not report, what to report as important or credible, and what to report as irrelevant or non-credible, can all be used to mislead the audience and misrepresent events. An amusing example of that phenomenon is the so-called "Summer of the Shark"[0], where a particularly shocking attack followed by a slow news season led to disproportionate reporting on shark attacks. There wasn't actually any more shark attacks than any other year, but try surveying people around then and they might think otherwise, even if all the reporting was only non-opinion, true statements. It's related to the Chinese Robber fallacy. Here's a great blog post[1] which demonstrates the fallacy using news stories about cardiologists. These are fun examples, but I'm sure you can think of it with a partisan bent about your favorite topic and news source. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin... |