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FYI, reason.com is considered to be right-center biased: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/

mrrrgn 7y ago
Why not discuss the article rather than post drive by links to supposed "bias fact check" sites which don't themselves seem to be authoritative....?
s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
Most news sources are left-center biased, what's your point? The article is well-written and sourced. Also in your link: > A factual search reveals they have not failed a fact check. You wouldn't complain about a link to CNN or MSNBC, their reviews are much worse: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/msnbc/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/msnbc/
- breakyerself 7y ago
  I agree it's a good article. I think the idea that most media is left of center is something of a myth perpetuated by conservatives. Most news media is corporate media. Which makes it corporate friendly media. Which biases it against a lot of progressive causes. I'd maybe agree there tends to be a socially liberal bias, but economically I think most mainstream media is conservative.
  - pravda 7y ago
    You are correct! Noam Chomsky covered this a long time ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic
    - 8bitsrule 7y ago
      He usually has. He could borrow the epitaph H.G. Wells wrote for himself: 'I told you so. You damned fools.'
breakyerself 7y ago
Seems like a good article though.
- deogeo 7y ago
  Well, the bias fact check site does give reason.com a favorable grade.
paulsutter 7y ago
Would that make the article less credible? or more credible? Wouldn't we expect a right-biased publication to be supportive of law enforcement and opposed to a prostitution website?
dragonwriter 7y ago
The one-dimensional spectrum is not particularly useful here, the narrative at your link is more relevant; Reason has a Libertarian bias in story selection (which is relevant here because Libertarian and Right have opposite expected biases on prostitution), and, perhaps most relevantly, a High rating on factual content. So, yes, that they are covering this story perfectly matches their expected ideological bias in story selection, but their covering it isn't, in and of itself, a reason to doubt the factual content of the story based on your own media-bias site.
pensatoio 7y ago
Ok, but most of the news sources out there including those posted to HN are center or far left?
- ratsmack 7y ago
  It's kind of funny that you should mention that.

mrrrgn 7y ago

Why not discuss the article rather than post drive by links to supposed "bias fact check" sites which don't themselves seem to be authoritative....?

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago

Most news sources are left-center biased, what's your point? The article is well-written and sourced. Also in your link: > A factual search reveals they have not failed a fact check. You wouldn't complain about a link to CNN or MSNBC, their reviews are much worse: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/msnbc/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/msnbc/

breakyerself 7y ago
I agree it's a good article. I think the idea that most media is left of center is something of a myth perpetuated by conservatives. Most news media is corporate media. Which makes it corporate friendly media. Which biases it against a lot of progressive causes. I'd maybe agree there tends to be a socially liberal bias, but economically I think most mainstream media is conservative.
- pravda 7y ago
  You are correct! Noam Chomsky covered this a long time ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic
  - 8bitsrule 7y ago
    He usually has. He could borrow the epitaph H.G. Wells wrote for himself: 'I told you so. You damned fools.'

breakyerself 7y ago

Seems like a good article though.

deogeo 7y ago
Well, the bias fact check site does give reason.com a favorable grade.

paulsutter 7y ago

Would that make the article less credible? or more credible? Wouldn't we expect a right-biased publication to be supportive of law enforcement and opposed to a prostitution website?

dragonwriter 7y ago

The one-dimensional spectrum is not particularly useful here, the narrative at your link is more relevant; Reason has a Libertarian bias in story selection (which is relevant here because Libertarian and Right have opposite expected biases on prostitution), and, perhaps most relevantly, a High rating on factual content. So, yes, that they are covering this story perfectly matches their expected ideological bias in story selection, but their covering it isn't, in and of itself, a reason to doubt the factual content of the story based on your own media-bias site.

pensatoio 7y ago

Ok, but most of the news sources out there including those posted to HN are center or far left?

ratsmack 7y ago
It's kind of funny that you should mention that.