Biased Journalism example: Interviewing a hundred people, then taking excerpts from the five who said something in line with the narrative you want to push, and reporting it in a manner that makes it sound like the sample was representative of the population surveyed.

Fake news example: Saying Hillary might be arrested for running a child sex ring soon, because you saw it on an anonymous 4chan post.

Another example of biased journalism is providing technically true statements that aren't actually directly relevant to the story, or are unrepresentative of the situation, to create a pejorative mental association.

For example, and this will be an unpopular example, during the Trayvon Martin case. Showing the picture of Martin as a 12-year old, and saying "this kid" , instead of using a more recent picture, giving the impression that the person shot was actually the small kid, not the 6'+ man he'd since become. Or NBC's selective airing of Zimmerman's words.

For the record, I don't like Zimmerman - but that whole incident makes for a great case study in media bias and narrative pushing, especially since they went a bit further with it than normal, making it really easy to catch and call out. Which few people do, because no one wants to give the impression of being on Zimmerman's side.


For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)