Media Bias Chart
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-Washington Post - NY Times need to slide left a little and maybe drop slightly.
-Time should slide left slightly.
MSNBC needs to drop a lot.
-National review needs to drop a little
-WSJ needs to slide right a little
-the Guardian needs to raise
To suggest that the quality of reporting from the Huffington Post or DailyKos is even slightly better than that of Fox News of the DailyWire is absurd.
And the big networks stopped "reporting facts" a long time ago. They're not even Complex Analysis, barely Analysis IMO.
I said Huff should drop, I don’t read dailykos. I think Fox is right where it should be. I don’t watch my news though
You say that a lot. It would be beneficial for you to watch some of the stuff though so you can see context and tone. The classic one I always fall back on is the “Trump asks Russia to find Hillary’s 33,000 emails”. If you watched it live like I did, or even watch the clip, it’s so blatantly tongue-in-cheek sarcastic nonsense that the fact it’s being written about is ridiculous. However, when it’s put into print, you get none of that context and you read it like, Oh my God!!! He did what?!!!
I watch speeches, I watch clips....I jut don’t watch the shows to get my news. If I read an article about.....say, Trump damaging the IC’s credibility...I watch the PC clip.
I don't really understand the graph. I get the Left and Right on the left and right, but the up and down part confuses me. On one hand I get the impression that higher is better but OTOH I get the impression that higher means just report the facts rather than analysis.
I don't think the major networks should be the top in terms of good/bad. Also, I read The Economist every week and in terms of good/bad it should be much higher. It almost never reports junk. As junky as it gets are short stories on soccer or the World Cup. OTOH I bet you can go onto any network website right now, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox and find point blank junk.
I think the graph needs a 3rd dimension. One is Left/Right. One is the goal of what kind of news you're reporting, hard news, infotainment, mixture, etc. And the 3rd is how well/accurately you report what you aim to report. Things like The Economist and Reuters should not even be in the same category of business as NBC, CNN, etc.
I don't think the major networks should be the top in terms of good/bad. Also, I read The Economist every week and in terms of good/bad it should be much higher. It almost never reports junk. As junky as it gets are short stories on soccer or the World Cup. OTOH I bet you can go onto any network website right now, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox and find point blank junk.
I think the graph needs a 3rd dimension. One is Left/Right. One is the goal of what kind of news you're reporting, hard news, infotainment, mixture, etc. And the 3rd is how well/accurately you report what you aim to report. Things like The Economist and Reuters should not even be in the same category of business as NBC, CNN, etc.
They confuse bias with **** they don't want to know about. Seriously, if ya get all your news from the boob tube you are uninformed. I like to watch the BBC just to get their take on things. And NPR, who doesn't like "all things considered", for my Bias fix I listen to AFA Bryan Fischer on the way home from work, it's hilarious and if that is where ya get your news no wonder ya think liberals wanna have open borders and hate God, lol.
I heard about a plug in you can add to Google Chrome called News guard. They rate the news providers based on a lot of different things. They also write pretty clear synopses of each one, pointing out where they see deficiencies. The way it works, they color code the source for stories based on their analysis. The color codes range from green to ready, green check marks if they pass on all fronts.
I don't think this plug in is intended to address bias, only a measure of journalistic integrity with respect to reporting. I haven't added it yet, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
I don't think this plug in is intended to address bias, only a measure of journalistic integrity with respect to reporting. I haven't added it yet, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
The Economist, Investors Business Daily and Stratfor, are the three best unbiased unfiltered news sources one can access today. I read all three daily.
There are others that I find incredibly informative but most of them tend to lean right... still very good information the mainstream media doesn't report.