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media bias

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I think this is accurate and I'll note the bell shaped curve showing increasing bias on both left and right.

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Source: How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart

The original source along with discussion of methodology All Generalizations are False - Home of the Media Bias Chart
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
Don't know how accurate it is, but probably close enough. Thanks for sharing.

What I find telling is where Fox News ended up."Propaganda/Contains Misleading Info--Nonsense damaging to public discourse."

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Mindmaster

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Don't know how accurate it is, but probably close enough. Thanks for sharing.

What I find telling is where Fox News ended up."Propaganda/Contains Misleading Info--Nonsense damaging to public discourse."

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Fox News has a variety of hosts with completely different viewpoints, it's stupid to classify them as anything. Some of those hosts are left, center, and right. Whatever they're doing, they're dominating all news so I wouldn't see it that they change. Like it, lump it, they're making the mad loot. Infowars is anti-authoritarian Libertarian, and always has been - they've never been right, or even "alt-right". Anyone that can't tell the difference calls their judgement immediately into suspicion as well as to how far off the deep end in the left their views are. They just broadcast their own lack of perspective, mostly.

CNN, Huffington Post, and Buzzfeed being anywhere but in the dumpster on the left just means this whole chart is garbage. I'm not even "right" or "left" and I find their content terrible, useless, and completely biased. A little test - if every Trump story is emotionally driven and anti-Trump on a web site, that site is garbage. If every story is pro-Trump on that site, it's propaganda, lol.

@sunrise123 -

All news outlets are equality capable of printing garbage, so there is no one you can trust. You can take some information in the most superficial of ways and use that to do research on your own, but history bears out all of them are lying to some degree. Whether the lying is intentional, or simply a manifestation of their confirmation biases it simply doesn't matter. You always have to be on guard for this or you are going to get deceived and believe something that is untrue.
 

Kuzcotopia

If you can read this, you are as lucky as I am.
Infowars is anti-authoritarian Libertarian, and always has been - they've never been right, or even "alt-right". Anyone that can't tell the difference calls their judgement immediately into suspicion as well as to how far off the deep end in the left their views are. They just broadcast their own lack of perspective, mostly.

Any defense of Infowars is a defense of destructive conspiracy theories. And unfortunately, any person who defends is may find that their ability to judge news sources is horribly flawed. For everyone else who isn't familiar with him, just try to get through a list of his own quotes without cringing.

Alex Jones

And I certainly hope you don't buy any of his crap. The globalist takeover is coming. . . So patriots, better get your Superblue floride toothpaste for 11 bucks plus shipping. . .

Welcome to the Alex Jones Infowars Store - Infowars Life And More!
 

PureX

Veteran Member
The greater damage comes from corporations using their massive advertising budgets to stop reporting of the news. Remember all those long glossy and very expensive ads telling us all how BP loves us, and respects nature? Well those ads represented such a huge revenue stream for networks that they stopped reporting on the many oil spills that have occurred, since. The oil companies have effectively bribed the media not to report on them, using those very expensive glossy advertisements. And it's all perfectly legal.

So how many other giant corporate conglomerates are buying media silence and biased opinion reports through their massive advertising revenue to media companies? What are we not hearing about thanks to this form of ;legalized media bribery?
 

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member

Jayhawker Soule

-- untitled --
Premium Member
Thanks, @sunrise123, it's an interesting map that strikes me as pretty accurate. I'm particularly pleased to see CNN placed relatively far down the y-axis. (Wolf Blitzer always struck me as someone with all the journalistic depth of a bearded cauliflower.)
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
NPR neutral?! Really? Listen to the Saturday morning game/slash comedy shows (although I do so miss Click and Clack).
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
NPR neutral?! Really? Listen to the Saturday morning game/slash comedy shows (although I do so miss Click and Clack).
Aye, NPR does stories about how Trump is similar to Hitler,
& this is neutral. Of course, to the NPR audience it prolly is.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Aye, NPR does stories about how Trump is similar to Hitler,
& this is neutral. Of course, to the NPR audience it prolly is.

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of classical music played on NPR, but I swear I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth just the other day and I heard "Trump is Beelzebub..." subliminally during the second movement.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Of the networks/providers there I'm familiar with, their results are in line with my own intuitive appraisal of them. It'd be nice to see a third axis to represent click-bait presentation and sensationalizing (as one can manage to do that while still being fact-based). I pretty much only look at the stuff in that green box with any regularity. When I read anything outside of that, it's usually because someone around here links to a crappy source (no offense) and then I look for something better... haha.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
One should remind himself or herself that the neutral line is actually arbitrary, based on the current perception of what is equidistant from the perceived left and right wings.

It has actually moved a lot towards the right wing during the last few decades.
 

tytlyf

Not Religious
You'll notice most reliable media is moderate (center). RW media leaders are all in the 'deception' categories.

When RW media tells you to not trust any media but them, that's propaganda. In order for the republican establishment to control the agenda, they make sure to demonize all mainstream media with the intent that the RW viewer will never accept anything reported by those outlets.
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
Fox News has a variety of hosts with completely different viewpoints, it's stupid to classify them as anything. Some of those hosts are left, center, and right. Whatever they're doing, they're dominating all news so I wouldn't see it that they change. Like it, lump it, they're making the mad loot. Infowars is anti-authoritarian Libertarian, and always has been - they've never been right, or even "alt-right". Anyone that can't tell the difference calls their judgement immediately into suspicion as well as to how far off the deep end in the left their views are. They just broadcast their own lack of perspective, mostly.

CNN, Huffington Post, and Buzzfeed being anywhere but in the dumpster on the left just means this whole chart is garbage. I'm not even "right" or "left" and I find their content terrible, useless, and completely biased. A little test - if every Trump story is emotionally driven and anti-Trump on a web site, that site is garbage. If every story is pro-Trump on that site, it's propaganda, lol.

@sunrise123 -

All news outlets are equality capable of printing garbage, so there is no one you can trust. You can take some information in the most superficial of ways and use that to do research on your own, but history bears out all of them are lying to some degree. Whether the lying is intentional, or simply a manifestation of their confirmation biases it simply doesn't matter. You always have to be on guard for this or you are going to get deceived and believe something that is untrue.
You've got to be kidding.

"Fox News Channel has been accused of biased reporting, and promoting the Republican Party and conservative causes." See:

James Robert Compton (2004). The Integrated News Spectacle: A Political Economy of Cultural Performance. Peter Lang. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-8204-7070-2.
Timothy Noah, Fox News admits bias!, Slate, May 31, 2005. Retrieved September 26, 2006.

Paul La Monica (2009). Inside Rupert's Brain. Peter Lang. p. 5. ISBN 1101016590.

Media Sources: Distinct Favorites Emerge on the Left and Right". Pew Research Center. October 21, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2016.

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"Fox News Channel has been widely criticized for biased reporting in favor of conservative political positions" See:

"The Perspective On Fox News". The Perspective. 5 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.

Memmott, Mark (July 12, 2004). "Film accuses Fox of slanting the news". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 23, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2009.

James Robert Compton (2004). The Integrated News Spectacle: A Political Economy of Cultural Performance. Peter Lang. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-8204-7070-2.
Timothy Noah, Fox News admits bias!, Slate, May 31, 2005. Retrieved September 26, 2006.

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"Critics have cited the channel as detrimental to the integrity of news overall." See:

Anthony Collings (2010). Capturing the News: Three Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict. University of Missouri Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8262-7211-9.

Jonathan McCollum; David G. Hebert (2014). Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Lexington Books. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4985-0705-9.

Sourtce: Wikipedia

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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
One troubling placement is The Drudge Report, which is primarily a news aggregator.
It has links to many of the other sources all over the map.
 

tytlyf

Not Religious
One troubling placement is The Drudge Report, which is primarily a news aggregator.
It has links to many of the other sources all over the map.
Drudge is selective and will cherry pick from all sources if it suits the agenda. You don't find much positive coverage of democrats. Heck, I hear Rush and Hannity always refer to NYT or other liberal lame-stream media outlets when it suits them. All depends on the story.
 

Mister Emu

Emu Extraordinaire
Staff member
Premium Member
Hahaha

The primary way statements are currently evaluated in the news are on the basis of truthfulness, which is arguably the most important ranking metric. Several existing fact-checking sites, such as Politifact... I do not replicate this work myself but rather rely on these sources for fact checking.
BWAHAHAHAHA
 
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