Tag: Media Bias

As you've probably heard, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is buying The Washington Post. This news caught our attention at AllSides because Bezos is a known innovator and we are interested in innovating to promote and preserve journalistic integrity in a world where many feel the...

This week: a fresh contrast in Opinion reflections on the Bush presidency and the Boston bombings and Islam in America . Reflections on Bush Presidency Snippets: From the Right “...it is important to remember what a good man with a good heart George W. Bush is. I know from personal...

With "hot political potato" stories like President Obama's inauguration speech and Hillary Clinton’s testimony at the Benghazi hearings, the contrast in coverage was even more pronounced than usual this week. Here are our top contrast picks for these two big stories: Benghazi stories From...

As 2012 comes to a close, some media watchdogs on the right and left have been announcing awards, but these are not the kinds of awards you want to win. Award from the Right On the right, media watchdog Media Research Center has a whole page of awards. Here's a highlight: MRC's "Never Let...

The political polarization of Americans is reaching new heights, and the Internet is making it worse. How did we end up so divided and is there anything we can do about it? Polarization has been exacerbated by what I call the “Internet brain”. It goes beyond a mere fad--it's more...

In the last presidential debate before the election, “the candidates again contradicted each other, while each offered incorrect or twisted factual claims,” according to FactCheck.org. And, once again, headlines from different sources made each candidate look like a winner or loser,...

We frequently expose bias just by showing how two different news organizations cover the same story. What is perhaps even more important, particularly when you consider how it impacts public discourse and how well we are informed before Election Day, is when news is not covered at all or...

Bias Pick of the Week: New Healthcare Study . This week we saw a great contrast in coverage of new reports by two major research groups on U.S. health insurance. And we saw the left and the right both leave out key information that the others thought were important. From the Left, the New...