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Left, Right Media Differ on Texas July Coronavirus Spike

News / July 23rd, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi

Refrigeration trucks are being used to store the dead in parts of Texas and Arizona where morgues are reaching capacity. But depending on the kinds of media you consume or the filter bubble you’ve wound up in, you may not have known this, as the story was more likely to be covered by left...

Media Bias, Texas, Coronavirus

Braver Angels Podcast: Depolarizing the Media

Bias / July 22nd, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

What are the forces driving the breakdown in our media system? How do media polarization, hyperpartisanship, and disinformation threaten our values and democracy? And what can we do about it? Ciaran O’Connor, CMO at Braver Angels , talks to the leaders of two organizations working to free...

Polarization, Political Polarization, Media Bias, Liberal Media Bias, Conservatives

When Good People Turn On Each Other

News / July 21st, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

As the COVID-19 coronavirus devastation worsens, it has become very clear who deserves the blame for the virus’ spread: Other people. “Other”, of course, is entirely in the eye of the beholder. As America has retreated into partisan and cultural cul-de-sacs, it becomes more and more...

Coronavirus, Life During Covid-19, Polarization

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...

Media Bias, Civil Discourse

Union: A Democrat, A Republican, and a Search for Common Ground

Bias / July 20th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, formed an unlikely friendship. Over the months, Jordan and Chris’s friendship blossomed not in spite of but because of their...

Unions, Political Polarization

Colorado Ban on Panic Defense Goes Uncovered by Major News Media

News / July 20th, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi

Given how chaotic the news seems to be everyday, it can be easy to miss stories that are crucial and consequential to certain communities. On July 14, Colorado became just the 11th U.S. state to outlaw the use of the ‘trans panic’ and ‘gay panic’ criminal defense. The ‘trans panic’...

Media Bias, LGBTQ Issues, Colorado, Media Industry

Story of the Week: Virus Spikes in Florida and Across South, Falls Elsewhere; Interpretations Differ

Story of the Week / July 16th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Florida set a U.S. record earlier this week with over 15,000 new COVID-19 coronavirus cases reported in a single day, solidifying itself as a North American coronavirus epicenter while other regions seem to gain...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Florida, Media Bias, Public Health

Media Bias Alert: Fox News Crops Trump Out of a Photo with Epstein, Maxwell

Bias / July 15th, 2020 / By Micaela Ricaforte

Fox News made headlines last Sunday when it covered the arrest of alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Authorities charged Maxwell on four counts related to recruiting minors to engage in sexual activity and two counts of perjury. During the television segment, Fox...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Censorship, Donald Trump, Fox News, Jeffrey Epstein

When the United States Turns Away From the World

News / July 15th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

This past week’s political headlines were dominated by chatter about presidential facemasks and executive clemency. But there was less noticeable and more important news that surfaced as well, which underscored the continued retreat of the United States from its role on the world stage...

World, Foreign Policy, Trade, Elections, 2020 Election, Joe Biden, Donald Trump

Media Bias Alert: Texas Paper Levels With Readers After Reprinting Biased AP Story

News / July 15th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

AllSides is proud of the work we do to promote information literacy and awareness of media bias. And when other media companies share that goal, we’re happy to acknowledge it — even when it comes as an unfortunate consequence of bias from major media outlets. The Lufkin Daily News is a...

Media Bias

Braver Angels Podcast: Conservative Leader Meets Black Lives Matter Leader

Bias / July 14th, 2020 / By John R. Wood Jr.

Braver Angels 2020 brings you a conversation like few others. Bob Woodson and Hawk Newsome are among the most important voices in black America today, but their politics couldn't be any more different on the surface. Hawk Newsome is the chairman and former president of Black Lives Matter...

Conservatives, Black Lives Matter, Leftism, Liberals, Podcast, Braver Angels

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, Liberal Media Bias, Conservatives, Bias Ratings

Media Bias Alert: Mainstream Media Covers Ye, But Not Jo

News / July 10th, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi

If you've been following AllSides this week, you probably read that rapper Kanye West announced that he’s seeking a presidential bid. While this announcement earned plenty of mainstream media attention, major outlets haven’t provided much information on a campaign arguably of equal or...

Elections, 2020 Election, Kanye West, Jo Jorgensen

Story of the Week: Cancel Culture Commands Nation's Attention

Story of the Week / July 9th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. The U.S. is undergoing a vast cultural reckoning, as people clash over eradicating purportedly systemic oppression, preserving civil debate, and protecting free thought and expression. Known as cancel culture,...

Story Of The Week, Culture, Cancel Culture, History

AllStances™: How should we handle controversial statues in public areas?

AllStances / July 8th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

In Summer 2020, many activists toppled statues around the U.S., claiming they were offensive or harmful. How should we handle controversial statues in public places?

AllStances, Perspectives

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, Leftism, NBC, New York Times, Liberal Media Bias

When the United States Congress Gives Up and Goes Home

News / July 6th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

Has anybody seen our Congress? In a time of worldwide pandemic, deep recession and heightened racial tensions, the first branch of government just left town. Again. To be fair, the two-week Fourth of July recess is a regularly scheduled part of the legislative calendar that allows members...

US Congress, Polarization, Role Of Government

Story of the Week: Coronavirus Surge Halts Re-openings in Some States

Story of the Week / July 2nd, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. COVID-19 coronavirus cases have rebounded in certain regions, prompting some leaders to reverse reopening strategies and reinstate strict lockdown measures. The rise in cases is most pronounced in the Sunbelt...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Public Health

Media Bias Alert: Reporting Differs in Incident with St. Louis Couple, Protesters

Bias / July 1st, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

Media bias occurred over the weekend after a viral video showed a St. Louis couple displaying guns in front of their house on Sunday and telling Black Lives Matter protesters to leave their private street. Protesters had entered a gate to march toward the mayor’s house to hold a...

St. Louis, Black Lives Matter, Protests, Media Bias, Liberal Media Bias, Conservatives

When the Virus Moves to Red States

News / June 30th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

For most of the spring, COVID-19 was primarily a blue-state pandemic. While conservative areas of the country were hit by the virus as well, the types of densely populated urban areas that tend to vote Democrat absorbed the overwhelming majority of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. For...

Coronavirus, Republican Party, Polarization, Elections, 2020 Election

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