By definition, media bias means, “Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.” There are several types of sources, such as technology and articles, that is efficient at spreading information through media. However, society is negatively affected when media portrays bias and non-credible information through technology and published articles. There have been several resources on the problem regarding wage gaps due to ethnicity and genders. In the article, It’s Time We Talked About the Ethnicity Pay Gap, Sadiq Khan uses her personal experiences to prove that blacks and women have a more difficult time trying to …show more content…
Lastly, in the article, These Are The Pay Gaps Women, Ethnic Minorities, And Disabled People Face, a major study shows that the different incomes of various groups, such as women, people with ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities, have decreased in Britain. Misinformation to an intended audience is being perpetuated by the media, in which several articles are seen to reveal bias and inaccurate statistics, as others use statistical evidence and facts. While Eileen Patten’s article, Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress, shows the different incomes of various groups from a unbiased standpoint by using a sufficient and accurate use of statistical evidence, the article, These Are The Pay Gaps Women, Ethnic Minorities, And Disabled People Face, by a research group of Britain and It’s time we talked about the ethnicity pay gap by Sadiq Khan, offers a slight bias by using their personal experiences and one sided beliefs to address the issue; this emphasizes the importance of the reader to analyze the media’s information and to identify the bias in order to prevent the perpetuation of …show more content…
Sadiq Khan specifically utilizes black women because she is a black women and has experienced it herself as she states, “Growing up I was always told by my mother and various mentors that I will always have to work three times as hard as everyone else... Twice as hard because I’m female. Three times as hard because I’m the deadly combination of being black and female. I never used to believe it but soon began to experience it early in my working life. It seems for others it continues.” In this article it is obvious that Sadiq Khan immediately starts off her argument with bias. There are several reasons and evidence to state that she stands by her argument with her personal beliefs and her subjective tone, in which it is apparent that her argument is highly biased. The entire article demonstrates her bias toward the issue of racial and gender wage gaps, more specifically for black women. Due to this personal experience of hers, Khan exhibits a tenacious need to publicize this issue even more when she says, “ It begs the question, however: where are the headlines about the ethnicity pay gap? I don’t believe they are few and far between because such a gap doesn’t exist. I believe it’s because for some mysterious reason it’s just not considered to be as important as the gender pay