Keeping up with the media is crucial if we want to be informed about the world around us. The web has become our primary source of information and it contains an overwhelming amount of news, so we must be really careful with the sources we choose to consult because the way news is reported can affect the way we think. Sometimes our sources maybe not be truthful about the actual facts, or they may push us towards certain points of view. When this happens, we talk about Media Bias. Media bias refers to the media exhibiting unjustifiable favouritism as they
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Media vs. Media Bias: Case Studies
Having young people as the main target of IDare, it is important not only to elaborate on their main sources of information but also on their leisure and free time and how that relates to the media. Young people in Jordan are known to spend significant amounts of their free time reading, listening to music and watching TV (47%, 86%, and 87%, respectively) (1). This is an opportunity that needs to be exploited. If we recur to these alternative media channels as a way to promote awareness on the overall media panorama, we will surely witness a shift in the