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You really can't model this on a single axis.

• shkkmo 4y ago
  Any political labeling system, regardless of number of axes, is going to drop details and fail to capture all the ways in which political opinions can vary. That doesn't mean that all labeling systems are equally informative, but it also means that you can indeed model political leaning on a single axis. If you do that, you will absolutely miss details bout the bias of the NYT, but you will also find that the NYT bias tends toward the left. It is also true that while the NYT generally is biased to the left, some of its articles and editorials can still be biased to the right.
• prepend 4y ago
  I think the argument would be to not simplify judgement of things. But left/right is a single axis. If you’re measuring left/right bias then you’re going to have a single axis. A different argument is only the quality or usefulness of a media outlet. That’s definitely more dimensions and one would be left/right bias.