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AllSides Perspectives provides balanced coverage of today's top news and issues, sometimes highlighting credible views generally overlooked by the broader media. We often write about media bias, media literacy, filter bubbles, political polarization, and bridging divides.

We seek to provide a deeper and fuller understanding of the world around us.

How to have a conversation about vaccines at your Thanksgiving table

Recommended Reading / November 23rd, 2021 / By Katie Hyten

Begin by drawing out the individual experiences that lie beneath a person's values and perspectives.

bridging divides, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Polarization, coronavirus vaccine, vaccine mandates

Healthcare Study: Bias Pick of the Week

Bias / September 16th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

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...

News, Bias

How to Turn Media Bias into a Good Thing

Bias / September 14th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Perhaps you’ve noticed the growing tendency of media outlets to present themselves as the Zeus on Mount Olympus you should go to for everything – your “most trusted" source. In the process, some outlets seek to build business by having an editorial viewpoint that guarantees a large, like-...

Bias, Polarization

A Tale of Two Men: Bias in Coverage of Clinton and Obama Speeches

Bias / September 8th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

After watching every night of both party conventions, what do I feel? Mostly exhaustion. No wonder we all need someone to sort through all of this chatter for us - there is no way average people with busy lives can spend all of this time listening and evaluating both major parties and...

News, Bias

Escaping Information Cocoons

Recommended Reading / September 4th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Just read a great article on Bloomberg: How Voters Can Escape From Information Cocoons . That pretty much describes the exact problem we are solving here at AllSides. Check it out.

Polarization

Media Bias at the GOP Convention: Racism, Paul Ryan Coverage

Bias / September 1st, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

After many late nights watching the Republican National Convention (RNC), I don't know if I should thank Tivo for letting me easily watch it later, along with the US Open, or curse it for keeping me up late night after night. Why did I do that? To see what actually happened BEFORE the...

News, Bias

AllSides in Sunday SF Chronicle

Recommended Reading / August 27th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

It was great to wake up to this article on Sunday morning - the SF Chronicle's story on our launch, taking almost half !!! of the front page of the Business Section and also online at SF Gate: Breaking through the political noise. Benny Evangelista interviewed me last week and did a great...

AllSides

AllSides Goes Live Today

Announcement / August 26th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

We finally go live today! Yippee! This is our 4th release (or 24th depending on how you count), but the first one we are releasing to the public. We have been working on this for sometime getting the technology right, improving the user experience, throwing away brilliant ideas that...

AllSides, Startups & Technology

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Perspectives from across the political spectrum

How to have a conversation about vaccines at your Thanksgiving table

Healthcare Study: Bias Pick of the Week

How to Turn Media Bias into a Good Thing

A Tale of Two Men: Bias in Coverage of Clinton and Obama Speeches

Escaping Information Cocoons

Media Bias at the GOP Convention: Racism, Paul Ryan Coverage

AllSides in Sunday SF Chronicle

AllSides Goes Live Today

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