People’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs. That is the definition of confirmation bias.
There is an uncanny use of body language experts and so called Royal experts by a certain news media organisation to microscopically go through the live of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. Especially during her short time as a “working Royal”. This is often used to add credibility to stories which are written about the Duchess of Sussex. There are therefore questions being asked whether these so called experts are believable or are they just telling us their confirmation bias with a nudge from who hired their alleged expertise.
What do these media organisations allegedly believe is the character of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan from the numerous articles they have written about her?
I start with this question as it is crucial in the definition of confirmation bias, what you already believe.
Are these the news organisation’s believes?
Are we then to believe that anything independent can be written about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan? Given the long history of articles written by the news media organisation which are mostly negative and borderline an attempt to give a public impression of the character of the Duchess of Sussex.
Google Top news. Alleged public impression of character? With credibility of body language?
What raises an alarm is the way these curated articles are presented to the public with the help of AI on news aggregators like Google News. It seems that publishers are capable of manipulating the Google news categorisation of themes to at times put emphasis on an individual’s character or whatever the relevant theme of the day is. This confirmation bias has influence in the way Google AI functions making it AI biased which you can read more here.
Waking the Dead. Alleged public impression of character?
There are no lengths to which certain media organisations will sink to in their quest to demonstrate a public impression of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan’s alleged character which you can read more here.
At times it seems a concerted effort by the media organisations to accumulate headlines especially on the news aggregators concerning certain public figures like the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. This builds a further public impression of the public figure or celebrity to the public which you can read more here.
The consistency of these articles from the media organisations about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan therefore creates those existing beliefs in the public domain of her alleged character. However not everything which is being written is an attempt to build her alleged character. The timing of certain articles put into the public domain are designed to continue the narrative being told about her ambition.
Second season of With Love, Meghan. Heritage of Style.
a strong desire to do or achieve something.
That is the definition of ambition which is not a bad thing as it is being portrayed by the narrative of the media organisations.
The trailer of the second season of With Love Meghan was released and the Netflix series is due to be aired in the next few days. The Netflix trailer has been assembled to tell that narrative and storytelling of the Duchess of Sussex’s ambition to build a heritage lifestyle brand. There are intriguing scenes in that trailer and some interesting insights you can read here. There is also a tribute to the Duchess of Sussex Meghan’s husband, Prince Harry which you can read here.
Prince Harry is often included in that narrative being told by the media regarding the Duchess of Sussex’s alleged character. In an apparent attempt to pit them against other public figures.
Has your objective opinion of the character of a public figure or celebrity been influenced by the media organisations?
Only you can answer this question.