Who Skews the News...

[Sunstone]

I find this chart useful, although I don't entirely agree with it. For instance: It's my impression that Slate is less reliable than the chart gives it credit for being, and that at least some programs on MSNBC, and The Hill in general, are slightly more reliable than the chart gives them credit for being. I have other disagreements too. But overall, I think this is a useful chart. Your opinions?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

seeing the methodology would be useful. How are they measuring partiality and journalistic quality?

 

[Kemosloby]

I see a dog with a halo.

 

[Kirran]

It strikes me that much of this will be based on where the people making the chart are, politically.

 

[YmirGF]

How could they include Slate and the Atlantic but not include Politico? *shrugs*

Does anyone actually need confirmation that MsLSD and Faux Nudes are extreme?

 

[MD]

I mostly read political journals, they're surprisingly right wing in their perspectives.

 

[Kuzcotopia]

I find this chart useful, although I don't entirely agree with it. For instance: It's my impression that Slate is less reliable than the chart gives it credit for being, and that at least some programs on MSNBC, and The Hill in general, are slightly more reliable than the chart gives them credit for being. I have other disagreements too. But overall, I think this is a useful chart. Your opinions?

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Overall useful too, but I think the reality is probably a little more complicated than this.

It strikes me interesting that we actually see quite a few links in political threads from the pick circle in the right, and none from the pink circle on the left. I've never even heard of any of those.

If your worldview is built on that circle in the right, consumers of such crap probably believe that every other circle is as far left and as polarized as they are on the right.

I think most liberals tend to stick with the center grey circle for their news. That's where I am, generally too.

 

[Kemosloby]

"They" cast a large net. They don't want people to find the truth. They try to cover everybody from the farthest left to the farthest right. And what I mean is, by putting a leader to every genre of news they give it a head, and where the head goes the body follows.

 

[Acim]

Where you place priority of your stories and what you treat as headlines vs. back page stuff, is as much of bias as skewing stories one way or another. I find the chart missing this. To say "minimal partisan bias" and put the likes of NPR and New York Times in there (heck all of them really) is inaccurate. If I were creating such a chart, I'd have the middle section blank, and call that accurate.

 

[Revoltingest]

Where you place priority of your stories and what you treat as headlines vs. back page stuff, is as much of bias as skewing stories one way or another. I find the chart missing this. To say "minimal partisan bias" and put the likes of NPR and New York Times in there (heck all of them really) is inaccurate. If I were creating such a chart, I'd have the middle section blank, and call that accurate.

Aye, I was thinking the same thing.
NPR openly campaigned for Hilda, & against Donald.
Some would disagree, but I call that "biased".

 

[idav]

I find this chart useful, although I don't entirely agree with it. For instance: It's my impression that Slate is less reliable than the chart gives it credit for being, and that at least some programs on MSNBC, and The Hill in general, are slightly more reliable than the chart gives them credit for being. I have other disagreements too. But overall, I think this is a useful chart. Your opinions?

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I like the top middle, my favorite are guardian BBC and NPR.