Tuesday, February 3, 2026

News Bias Chart

 https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bias is a short word for a complex, ambivalent and even contradictory set of ideas. In a very basic way, it's an easy charge to level, because bias always exists. News is always covered from a perspective. What is covered and how it is covered is never random, and even if it were random would be it's own perspective.--Hiram

John said...

I personally am more interested in the vertical axis... Accuracy...

The closer it is to facts and data... The bias should decrease somewhat.

Anonymous said...

We live in a sea of facts. They are all around us. Bias is reflected in the choice of facts that we decide matter. It's in our priorities. The evening news shows have 22 minutes to tell us what is going on in the world that day. What goes in that 22 minutes is the result of someone's decision about what matters. What matters to that person, or what matters to each of us, is our bias.--Hiram

Anonymous said...

I have a favorite Fox News show, which I check in with daily. What I want to know is what is their lead story, what do they see as the most important story of the day. What is their priority? In these recent eventful weeks, their focus has been on gender issues. They worry about boys playing on girls high school basketball teams. They are concerned about gender issues. They don't do much real reporting, but what they say about those things is mostly true, or at least not easily disputable. Does that mean they are not biased?==Hiram

John said...

I stick to the news sources at the top of the pyramid. They cover a lot of topics and well... Though I do check out the more "opinion based" shows occasionally to remind myself what many Americans believe...

Channel 23.1 carries the Sinclair biased news...

Anonymous said...

The news business is disappearing. It is being consumed by oligarchs, who sacrifice for the benefit of their much larger business interests. We are now living in the dystopian world of the movie "Rollerball", the 1970s version.==Hiram

John said...

On the upside or downside... Anyone with a phone can now publish facts or lies...