BySean McElwee – What If We Reported On Poverty The Way We Report On The Stock Market?

“The media is biased,” is a complaint that media organizations receive a lot, so they tend to be fairly wary of overtly partisan reporting. However, while media organizations are loath to seem partisan, they are often deeply unaware of other deep biases they hold. One psychological bias humans suffer from is the “availability heuristic”—a tendency to generalize based on our …