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The All Sides blog has been an eye opener when it comes to examining biases that permeate virtually all news media (even the tenured giants like NYT), understan
by throwawaysea 6y ago
The All Sides blog has been an eye opener when it comes to examining biases that permeate virtually all news media (even the tenured giants like NYT), understanding how narratives are engineered, and how public perceptions are shaped. For example they had a recent write up on plug and play journalism (https://www.allsides.com/blog/rise-plug-and-play-journalism https://www.allsides.com/blog/rise-plug-and-play-journalism) and media bias regarding violence against Asian Americans (https://www.allsides.com/blog/unpacking-media-bias-and-narratives-around-asian-american-violence https://www.allsides.com/blog/unpacking-media-bias-and-narra...).
- luxuryballs 6y agoNPR got a C rating instead of an L?
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoground.news is even better imo
- throwawaysea 6y agoI use them too. I love their aggregation and display of news articles across the spectrum. An interesting tool they built is their “Blindspotter”, which lets you see the bias of who a particular Twitter account follows (their news diet). Interestingly a lot of the left leaning popular media accounts like Trevor Noah’s operate in a complete echo chamber whereas many popular right leaning accounts like Megyn Kelly are actually very balanced. And as you might expect, extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene are very biased in their news diet: https://ground.news/blindspotter https://ground.news/blindspotter