Detecting Media Bias Alyssa Mathews HUM/111 April 8‚ 2012 Helen Leonard MC LPC Critical evaluations of news stories can be very important to getting the whole story. Using critical thinking and reading skills is the key to understanding everything that is being discussed in the news report. In the report of Strictly Business: Spring‚ and recovery‚ in the air‚ critical evaluation is needed understand every aspect of the story. Skimming‚ reflecting‚ reading‚ evaluating‚ and then making
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I found several videos that give good examples of logical fallacies. All the DirecTV commercials in this compilation are good examples of the slippery slope fallacy. Each commercial shows how having cable TV can lead to a chain of events that result in bad outcomes. These commercials used the slippery slope fallacy on purpose to entertain the audience. A slippery slope fallacy claims that once you make one choice‚ a chain of events will inevitably follow. The truth is that making the first choice
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Fallacies and “Dirty Tricks” Identification The first person to try and categorize and systematically describe fallacies was Aristotle. He managed to identify thirteen different fallacies and divided them into two groups: Informal and Formal. The Informal Fallacy is hard to find because they can only be found and identified when you analyze the content of the argument. The Formal Fallacy is easy to identify because there is a defect to it and when you look at the logical formation of
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Logical Fallacies Handlist and it states that fallacies are statements that might sound reasonable or superficially true but are actually flawed or dishonest. It is important to avoid logical fallacies as they undermine your argument. There are several types of logical fallacies and to keep track of all of them you can separate them into different categories. There are four different main categories that the certain types can go into; they are fallacies of relevance‚ component fallacies‚ fallacies of
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Gambler’s fallacy 1 Gambler’s fallacy The Gambler’s fallacy‚ also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1] . Also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances‚ which is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process‚ future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely. For example‚ if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails
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Answers to fallacy exercise‚ Part 2. I. Identify the fallacies of sufficiency committed by the following arguments‚ giving a brief explanation for your answer. If no fallacy is committed‚ write "no fallacy."1 1. The Daily News carried an article this morning about three local teenagers who were arrested on charges of drug possession. Teenagers these days are nothing but a bunch of junkies. Hasty Generalization – not enough examples. 2. If a car breaks down on the freeway‚ a passing mechanic is
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One problem that plagues us everyday without us even realizing it is media bias. We see it in the news. We see it on our favorite sitcoms. We read it everyday in the paper. Yet‚ we really don’t recognize it when we hear it or see it. Media bias is evident in every aspect of the media‚ yet the problem is that we don’t even recognize it when it is right in front of our faces. Are the impressions that we form about individuals a product of the media? Do we form certain opinions about particular types
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University of Phoenix Material Grade= 6/6=3 Rhetorical Strategies and Fallacies Worksheet The following are some common rhetorical strategies: Innuendo: a leading suggestion Stereotype: generalized statements relating to a group of people Loaded questions: questions based on unjustified assumptions Hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration Identify the rhetorical strategy in each of the following statements. 1. I did not say the meat was tough. I said I did not see the horse that is usually
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Can slow motion replay improve jurors memory of evidence in a case? Caruso‚ Burns‚ and Converse (2016) examined the effect of video evidence on jury judgment of intentionality‚ the degree of which the harm caused was deliberate and premeditated‚ in criminal cases. Caruso et al. hypothesized that viewing a video in slow motion increases the perceived level of intent. After conducting four different studies‚ each with different variables‚ their results showed that slow motion footage perceives more
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Fallacies are all around us. Every time we turn on a TV‚ or a radio‚ or pick up a newspaper‚ we see or hear fallacies. According to Dictionary.com‚ a fallacy is defined as a false notion‚ a statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference‚ incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness‚ or the quality of being deceptive (www.Dictionary.com). Fallacies are part of everyday and become a staple in certain aspects of life. Political campaigns and reporters would be lost without the
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