Thank you for the invitation.

Why is the media bias increasing rapidly? Because, it seems, that in this way, media can ensure a better development on an economic basis.

Is this a global phenomenon? I do not know. I hope not. 

Regards

There is no such thing s "the media."  There are individual mediums, each of which has its own professional standards, ethics, and ways of doing business.

Many of the organizations which function today as "media" are actually engaged in advocacy, simply pretending to be legitimate news media.

Because people tend to favor "news" and agreed with their pre-existing biases, such "media" can make a lot of money from their biased editorial stances.

Good question and very timely noting some of what is being reported currently. This is really about bias and why it may exist. Depending on the media platform you need to be aware that there may be competing interests and hence constraints on what is or is not reported. So media outlets will have responsibilities to their CEO, their board (if it exists) along with who pays for their advertising. This can lead to bias depending on who has the greatest stake in the organization.

Now even facts are being disputed which can lead to confusion in the minds of the public as to where the truth lies. Add in political interference and it is a fairly dynamic mix.

So in my opinion it now comes down to consumer beware (although in fact this may have always been the case from the time when media outlets first began disseminating the so called news). This may be why Fact checking is now on the rise, one example of which is here-

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Finally it is probably best to not rely on one source for your news but to instead peruse a number of outlets and then draw your own conclusions.

Good question and very timely noting some of what is being reported currently. This is really about bias and why it may exist. Depending on the media platform you need to be aware that there may be competing interests and hence constraints on what is or is not reported. So media outlets will have responsibilities to their CEO, their board (if it exists) along with who pays for their advertising. This can lead to bias depending on who has the greatest stake in the organization.

Now even facts are being disputed which can lead to confusion in the minds of the public as to where the truth lies. Add in political interference and it is a fairly dynamic mix.

So in my opinion it now comes down to consumer beware (although in fact this may have always been the case from the time when media outlets first began disseminating the so called news). This may be why Fact checking is now on the rise, one example of which is here-

Thank you for the invitation.

Why is the media bias increasing rapidly? Because, it seems, that in this way, media can ensure a better development on an economic basis.

Is this a global phenomenon? I do not know. I hope not. 

Regards

I think that biasing of media is a global phenomena as media is not important for dissemination of current news only, but it has also become prominent in thought-making within the society. Quality of news depends how it is reproduced; and in this process, opinion, bias of reproducer play its role.

It is worrying that media people are being affected by politicians and administrators in locality. I also feel that courage of saying truth, is decreasing in the society all over world. As politics and corporate have become much powerful where entity of a single person has become timid.

Many thanks for these answers. I have been following the ways in which media handled American election and the inauguration of President Trump. One can conclude that media is extremely biased. I have also seen selective reporting in my country- Nigeria. It seems that media owners/workers fear the government to the extent that it prefers to tell lies to the public and be on the side of the government to reporting facts.

Exciting replies interesting, I agree with most of the answers and explanations above.

In general, media companies bias is increased for several reasons. First, access to variety of information channels like TV, radio, newspapers and journals, mobile devices, computers, and numerous other gadgets got drastically increased at the beginning of the XXI century. They enhanced the efficiency of delivering increased value of information. Second, political, financial, business, and government instability also dramatically increased around the globe. 

Businesses would like to market their products and services and need media to convince consumers and/or other businesses to buy their offerings. Their advertisements are massive, expensive, global, aggressive, and compete for the eyes and ears of potential buyers.

Political parties strive for power and fight to convince the electorate in having better ideas, election programs, promises, and candidates to elect - so that they are  fiercely competing, utilizing media's multiple channels and convincing power. 

There are also large groups of interests that take part in active information fight by using media outlets. For instance, labor unions, religious organizations, sport industries, ecology preservation organizations, scientific and technological organizations, and alike.      

Dear Len Leonid Mizrah, many thanks for pointing me to these factors that encourage media bias. It shows that media bias is a global issue.

Media bias increasing due to lack of values and corruption.

Dear Emeka,

This effect is shared by habitual readers or dependents of media. If the informations of media do not convince you, you would be independent of such biased media.

Media users are also growing and the majority of these users may not have adequate media literacy education. So, how can they avoid/discard biases? Children, young adults, and even many adults are influenced by media to a large extent, and this influence is worldwide. Because media industry disseminates the kind of information it wants audiences to hear either to make profit or(and) to exert power over media users, messages are created in ways that convince and/or entice media audiences.  I will appreciate if commenters are give examples from their countries?

It is possible in each era that information-rich may deceive and utilize the others. However, all individual has talent and people start to make their own opinion except those who are blind supporters of any person or thoughts.

I agree with Deborah Jean Verran.

Regards

SM Najim

Is it easy to detect media biases, so that one can avoid it? Not sure that everyone has media literacy education/skill to be able to identity these biases.

Greetings: A very important question caused by the media channels to destroy the Arab world, through the transfer of false and biased news, as it brought the region to the armed conflict, and also can not find the truth at all in the Arab world and highlight these destructive channels Al-Jazeera Qatar.

It is a global phenomena...

Wherever money found , bias occurred..

Liqaa 

Nowadays media bias is a global phenomenon. Current literature in the US shows this trend in the traditional media (print, TV, radio) and also on the Internet. Journalistic objectivity is over, and  media managers find that biased news is a good strategy to reach a wide audience. The public seeks polarized news according to their political leadings. Due to this trend, fake news receives credibility, for example.

In my country, Spain, media bias is an important feature of our journalism. Newspapers, broadcast channels and the new online publications are very politically biased. Journalists  play a supporting rather than a watchdog role in relation to political and economic power. There is a high paralellism between the media and the political system.