This week’s column devoted to The Secret World takes a look at how news outlets sometimes opt to frame Funcom’s game in a negative light despite the fact that, indeed, TSW seems to have already turned the corner. See what we’ve got to say and then leave your thoughts in the comments.
Like it or not, the way things are reported or framed creates a certain viewpoint that allows people to associate positively or negatively to a given article. A byproduct of being human is that we tend to create these viewpoints or write in a way that creates these associations without meaning to. We also tend to have something called confirmation bias, in which we favor information presented to us that confirms our existing beliefs or hypotheses.
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