User:ZachLee888/Evaluate an Article

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Media bias

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

Media bias plays a crucial role in our world today as we are often fed biased and misleading information on a variety of different channels (notably social media and news outlets). It is important to recognize, sift through, and filter out the biases we read in the media to give us a clearer understanding of the world around us. My initial impression of this article was okay. It goes through different types of media biases and offers examples to help readers understand.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of this article is good, but while it provides a clear introduction sentence describing the topic, it is somewhat overly detailed and jumps from one thought to the next with little flow in between. There is a table of contents present, but there are no descriptions of each section in the article. In terms of content, the content of the article is relevant to the topic of media bias and is up-to-date. The article does not misrepresent any marginalized groups. One of the things that could be added, however, is an examination of media bias through different cultural lenses (how do Canadians view media bias? How does x country view media bias?). This additional section could not only draw light on the thoughts of media bias in different countries (from different cultures) but could also compare and contrast between multiple countries (maybe x and y countries view media bias in the same light).

In terms of the tone, the tone of the article is fairly neutral with information being presented in a non-biased manner. However, this article favors an American perspective evident through its many examples of American society. To counter this overrepresentation, and to connect back to a suggestion above, it may be interesting to add another section that looks at media bias from different cultural viewpoints (not just focusing on the American view). Readers who may be reading this article may want to learn how media bias works and is implemented in different countries.

This article features an abundance of reliable secondary sources with working links. These sources do support the claims made in the article, come from an array of different authors and publications, and are fairly recent. In regards to readability, this article is fairly easy to read (even more helpful with the sections provided in the table of contents) but may require another read-through to grasp the content. There are little to no grammar mistakes. Unfortunately, there are no images in the article. It may be helpful to add an image or two (a graph perhaps) detailing where media bias comes from most (social media, news outlets, etc) to help readers understand and make them aware.

In terms of the talk page, this article's talk page is informative and helpful. Each author who contributed to the article explained what they did to contribute and what was their reasoning behind their edits. The article is also part of three WikiProjects. Overall, the article is well-written, and information is presented in a non-biased nature. To improve this article, there could be images/graphs added or possibly the addition of another section comparing media bias in different countries. There should be emphasis added to more countries to add diversity. Media bias is a very big topic, but this article did a good job of breaking down the different types of media biases.