I'm writing this a few days after Queen Elizabeth II's death. Her image is on the front of every UK newspaper, on many electronic billboards and she's the subject of numerous TV and radio programmes. It's enough to make one seek out the Wikipedia page for cultural hegemony. On Twitter, the usual arguments are still raging. Then Twitter user Paul Gray chips in with a Tweet … [Read more...] about Why the ‘media is left-wing’ is one of the Conservatives’ most important lies
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Fundamental attribution error in political media
Fundamental attribution error - what is it? In social psychology, fundamental attribution error is the tendency for people to over-emphasise personality-based explanations for an individual's behaviour, and under-emphasise situational and environmental explanations. “Psychologists refer to the inappropriate use of dispositional explanation as the fundamental attribution … [Read more...] about Fundamental attribution error in political media