Tag: Bias

Do America’s problems stem from big government or big business? Nearly all of us can agree that things are awry in America. Yet defining what’s gone wrong has resulted in finger-pointing and a clash of ideologies. One point of view comes from Occupy Wall Street. This Liberal-leaning group...

You know you've got a hot topic when outlets on the Left run stories of media showing bias against it and outlets on the Right run stories of media showing bias for it. The congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment released this week is just such a topic. The report says...

We had to solve a problem. AllSides is dedicated to delivering news with source bias transparency. But, we often find interesting articles (on hot topics) for which we have limited source bias info. This means that some of our ratings end up being more preliminary than others. Plus, all...

Contrast in news coverage is never more obvious than at election time. For example, after this week's elections, we noticed that the Right news sources typically led with Obamacare in their analysis, the Left talked about a rejection of the Tea Party and austerity, and we even saw a...

With a government shutdown in effect and the "Obamacare" health exchanges opening this week , a clamor of debate and outrage has been echoing across the news landscape. For some perspective, we've been bringing you Left, Center, and Right news and views on the government shutdown. What...

On a recent trip to New York, one news editor took issue with the idea that even "good journalism" should get a bias rating. I get his point. The idea of journalistic integrity is to report without bias, to report facts and balance the coverage. That is what they teach in journalism...

Our latest blind bias survey (thank you everyone who participated - you can take our new bias survey here ) measured the bias of several different news sources and changed our official AllSides Bias Rating for a few of them. Here are the new ratings: The Wall Street Journal (news page...

Because the media paints our culture's view of what is true, it influences policy on everything from waging war to feeding our kids. That’s why we like to see thoughtful critiques on how the media works, from all sides of the political spectrum . You may be interested in a couple of...

AllSides tends to attract some of the most rational thinkers around: people who want to see all sides of something before drawing a conclusion about it. Does that sound like you? If so, you might get pretty annoyed at people who take a strong view that seems ill-informed. The next time...