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What Bari Weiss’ Resignation from the New York Times Says About Media Bias – and About AllSides

Bias / July 27th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Weiss’ concerns about media bias and intolerance of diverse views are worth highlighting, as this is essentially why AllSides exists. The high-profile resignation of writer Bari Weiss from the New York Times two weeks ago underscores the dire need for tools like AllSides, which exists to...

Bari Weiss, New York Times, Free Speech, Media Bias, Bias, AllSides

Civil Discourse, Media Bias, And Admitting When We're Wrong

Bias / July 21st, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

At AllSides, we talk a lot about how bias is natural. Everyone has one — if you’ve got a pulse, you’ve got a bias. We support getting a variety of different perspectives because we believe freeing people from one-sided, biased filter bubbles helps us to better understand the world — and...

Bias, Media Bias, Civil Discourse, Civil Dialogue

AllSides Media Bias Chart: Version 2 | Updated Media Bias Ratings

Bias / July 13th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

It's here! Version 2 of The AllSides Media Bias Chart features even more outlets than Versions 1 and 1.1 , and we've changed the bias ratings for a number of outlets. The AllSides Media Bias Chart helps you to easily identify different perspectives so you can get the full picture and...

AllSides Media Bias Chart, Media Bias, Media Bias Chart, Liberal Media, Conservative Media, Bias, Bias Ratings

Media Bias Alert: Whether Protests Spread Coronavirus Depends On Your Bias

Bias / July 7th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

For months, Americans were told by public health officials to avoid mass gatherings and stay home in order to stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus . Many states explicitly banned gatherings over a certain number of people — usually 10 to 25 people — and many local and state...

Media Bias, Bias, Leftism, Left Activism, NBC News, New York Times, Vox, Left-Wing News, Liberal Media, Liberal Media Bias

Updated Media Bias Ratings: AP, The Hill, NPR, Washington Examiner, Washington Post

Bias / April 22nd, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

AllSides has rated the bias of over 600 media outlets , which are fluid and subject to change. We recently conducted a blind bias survey to review the bias of the Associated Press , The Hill , NPR online news , Washington Examiner , and Washington Post . For this blind bias survey, we...

Media Bias, AllSides Media Bias Chart, Media Bias Ratings, Bias, Liberal Bias, Conservative Bias, AP, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, NPR

Media Bias Alert: Media Ignores Coronavirus Death Rates to Attack Governors

Bias / March 31st, 2020 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Even in this time of crisis and death, some in the news media launched partisan attacks on Republican governors regardless of actual data, including how many people have died. We see this in the media all the time: journalists often cherry-pick commentary and data to support the side they...

Media Bias, CNN, Bias, Bias Against Conservatives, Liberal Media

Mapping Coronavirus Cases: How Graphics Provide Different Perspectives

Bias / March 27th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

Which map of COVID-19 coronavirus cases elicits more alarm? This map: Screenshot: 12:03 pm EST on March 27, Johns Hopkins real-time coronavirus map Or this map: Via Foster’s Outriders , published March 16 These maps are from different days, and COVID-19 cases have been rising...

Coronavirus, Bias, Missing Perspectives, Perspectives

Boos Toward a Republican at a Mindfulness Conference — Good Humor or Hateful?

Bias / March 6th, 2020 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Last year, Joan Blades and I spoke at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, an inspiring event that merges mindfulness and ageless wisdom with modern technology and society. It was an extraordinary event and going on again right now. I highly recommend it. Being the lone Republican...

Political Polarization, Bias, San Francisco

Media Bias Watch: Bias by Photo

Bias / January 17th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

AllSides frequently provides case studies that illustrate how media bias appears. Read more about the 11 Types of Media Bias here. Media bias manifests in many different ways — on this blog, we’ve shown you how it can appear as bias by omission , sensationalism , and bias by placement ...

Media Bias, Types Of Media Bias, Bias

Political Polarization Is No Longer Just Red v Blue: It’s About Memetic Tribes

Bias / January 9th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

The United States is politically polarized — but perhaps not in the way you think. We tend to think of “polarization” as two competing red and blue tribes, each far away from the other in belief, values, and ideas, battling for political territory. Republican versus Democrat. Elephant...

Culture, Culture War, Cultural Polarization, Political Polarization, Bias

Study: Political Views May Lead to Hiring Discrimination

Bias / December 20th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

Political affiliation may impact hiring decisions, according to an article published in the Journal of Applied Psychology that focused on two studies exploring the concept. Researchers sought to answer the question: Does an applicant’s political affiliation affect how a recruiter...

Bias, Polarization, Political Polarization

A Democrat, A Republican, and The Open Road

Bias / December 11th, 2019 / By AllSides Staff

Editor's Note: This blog post originally appeared on Better Angels . What happens when a liberal and a conservative decide to jump into an old Volvo and drive across the country? Jordan Blashek and Christopher Haugh share the story of their friendship, their travels, and how their journey...

Democrat, Republican, Bias, Podcast

Media Bias Watch: How Media Sensationalism Can Alter Our Reality

Bias / November 21st, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

It's probably not a stretch to say most of us would prefer to come to our own conclusions about events, rather than being told what to think. But when we don’t know how to spot media bias , we may end up being swayed or manipulated in one direction or the other. A video shared on social...

Media Bias, Types Of Media Bias, Bias, Mainstream Media

Teaching Children to Resolve Conflict: Q&A with "Two Tribes "Author Tyler Storlie

News / November 8th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

Earlier this summer, we wrote about a new children's book, Two Tribes , that exposes the dangers of political polarization and shows that solutions and compromises are both possible and necessary for humans to thrive and get along in peace. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Two...

Bias, Political Polarization, Polarization, Political Bias

Beyond Depolarization: What Our Movement is Becoming

Bias / November 6th, 2019 / By John R. Wood Jr.

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Better Angels . Better Angels and other individuals and organizations have been working hard to depolarize American politics. But can the movement to depolarize America break into the mainstream? Or is it transforming into something that...

Bias, Polarization, Political Polarization, Social Polarization

Popping the Filter Bubble

Bias / September 27th, 2019 / By AllSides Staff

AllSides CEO and co-founder John Gable recently joined Joan Blades, co-founder of AllSides for Schools and founder of MoveOn.org and Living Room Conversations, on The Bob Zadek Show to discuss filter bubbles : media echo chambers that expose us only to people and information that confirm...

Bias, Filter Bubbles, Living Room Conversations, Podcast

The Psychology of Polarization And How We Can Overcome Our Prejudices

Bias / September 4th, 2019 / By Kelly Murphy

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Bridge Alliance . The polar vortex may have retreated for the winter months ago, but the political polarization within the United States certainly has not. Just as meteorologists provide scientific explanations for our frozen toes, social...

Polarization, Psychology, Prejudice, Bias, Politics

The War on Empathy

Bias / August 19th, 2019 / By John R. Wood Jr.

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Better Angels . Take a look at the meaning of the word empathy. Ruminate on its definition— "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." It is the light by which we may call forth the best qualities of our fellow Americans...

Bias, Polarization, Political Polarization

Audit: Google Heavily Favors CNN and Left Media in Mass Shooting Coverage

Bias / August 7th, 2019 / By AllSides Staff

RESEARCH REPORT The days following two tragic mass shootings in Dayton, OH and El Paso, TX were extremely active for newsrooms nationwide. But readers who used Google to learn about the shootings may have seen an overwhelming majority of news from left-leaning media sources — CNN, the New...

Media Bias, Google Bias, Bias, Bias Against Conservatives, Google, Mass Shooting, Mass Shootings

President Trump Tweets About Media Bias in Wake of Mass Shootings

Bias / August 5th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

President Trump tweeted about media bias following two mass shootings that occurred over the weekend in Dayton, OH and El Paso, TX. The shootings had claimed 29 lives as of Monday afternoon. The Media has a big responsibility to life and safety in our Country. Fake News has contributed...

Media Bias, Gun Violence, Violence In America, Biased News, Bias, Violence, Gun Control And Gun Rights

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