TV Presenter: Breaking news! Breaking news! The new prime minister is a teenager!
Narrator: When you see the news on the TV or in newspapers, it’s important to understand what kind of information you’re getting.
Some of it is fact – things that are definitely true.
TV Presenter: The new prime minister is giving her first speech and is promising big changes!
Teenager: Double pocket money for everyone!
Narrator: But when people talk about what they think.
Pundit 1: She’s a terrible prime minister!
Pundit 2: I don’t agree! I really like her. And I think doubling pocket money is a really really good idea actually.
Narrator: That’s what we call opinions.
If someone says something is good, or bad, it’s not a fact, it’s how they feel.
Sometimes people have already made their minds up about whether something’s good or bad before they even know anything about it.
Pundit 3: All teens are smelly, and can’t be trusted. Everybody knows that!
Narrator: That’s called being biased.
If you think about what’s fact, and what’s just opinion, or bias, it’s a lot easier to make sense of things.
Description
Facts are true and can be supported by evidence. An opinion is a person’s point of view, or how they feel about something. Bias is when a person has an opinion without finding out the facts first.
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