key terms: press code, facts, children, bias, Zimbabwe, celebrities, slander, libel, editor, decisions, tabloids, quality papers.|||The Press can slant a story to the point that it is biased by the very way they present the story based on small factual points. A celebrity goes to a baseball game and eats a burger and has a beer, those are the simple facts. The Giants wins the exciting game and the fans are joyful and the actor leaves in a rush to beat traffic. Simple story and is true, now the editor makes the decision that the story is not news worthy because it is boring. So to spice it up he edits the story to read, Actor John Smith attends Giants game and gets slammed on beer and ignores hot dogs because he is un-American! Fans go nut and Smith is rushed from the game for some mysterious reason. It borders on libel but not one word is not true. Quality papers do this less often then the tabloid press but they make slants and bias in their papers as well. We call this yellow journalism and was once considered not acceptable in the Press Code.|||You have the choice of believing everything you read, or not. I don't blame newspapers for what I chose to read and what I choose to believe.
People blame the media for their own beliefs and biases.|||People believe what they read. Just look at how many people thought the world was going to end last month.
Editors are allowed to express opinions and if that opinion is read by several million people, it can influence things.
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