Bias and Libel
Libel is the act of putting into print something that will deliberately harm someone's reputation, and trying to create hatred or other thoughts about them. To avoid legal issues, a writer will often use 'fake' characters and settings exaggerating them to make the point. A good example is seen in George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' where Russian politicians are depicted as farm animals, the best known is the pig 'Napoleon' who was based around Russian dictator Joseph Stalin.
Bias is another thing a screenwriter has to be aware of. Being biased means that you are favouring one side of an idea, without fully considering the other. When screenwriting a writer may choose to be giving a message or a moral to the viewer, or try to inform them of something, but they must do it in an unbiased way. They must be unbiased because people don't like to have views forced on them, they would rather be the evidence and draw conclusions for themselves.
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