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| Topic | Opinion on this media bias chart? |
| Anteaterking 12/28/18 1:35:38 AM #29: | Just glancing around: 1. It seems weird to call a generally snarky, satire site like Wonkette "nonsense damaging to public discourse". I don't really feel like it tries to fit the role of "news" the same way most of the other outlets on here do. 2. Some things like "Infowars" are placed to far to the right. In general, I think "alt-right" is conflated with being politically far right, which I think is inaccurate. 3. CNN should be more neutral. One shouldn't conflate pro-decorum attacks on Trump as being inherently a left leaning thing. 4. Generally, I haven't dug deep into the methodology, but the fact that you get essentially an upside down U is an indication that the methodology itself is skewed. They say analysis is "worse" than just reporting facts, but that's not really what I think of when it comes to quality journalism. Otherwise most local news outlets would be scoring in the yellow/green squares, despite the fact that lots of local news sucks. It just happens to be mostly fact reporting and without clear bias, but with a lack of quality in most other aspects. Because of this the chart inherently builds in a dependence between non-centrist political beliefs and low quality scores. I mean, hypothetically I could make a far left/far right news outlet with high journalistic standards which provides news. But it seems that the only way mediabiaschart would be able to determine your bias is through pieces that are mainly analysis, and as I said, they've set up "more analysis" to be bad. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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