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Yes, CNN's Media Bias Has Shifted Left

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/ March 27th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

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Data driven and bi-partisan analysis reveals CNN's news media bias has shifted Left in the last three years In the past, AllSides rated CNN Web News (which does not include Opinion/Editorial pieces or cable TV broadcasts) as Center media bias — yet, it was barely Center, and fell close to...

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Facebook Under Fire for Data Harvesting

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/ March 22nd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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Facebook is under widespread criticism after it was revealed that a political analysis firm was able to harvest personal information from millions of users without their permission. The company, Cambridge Analytica, was employed by President Trump's campaign, and the data was utilized to...

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Rex Tillerson Fired as Secretary of State

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/ March 15th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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President Trump ousted Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, announcing that CIA director Mike Pompeo would be his replacement. Some speculate that he was fired over disagreements related to Russia, while others posit that Trump wanted someone who would take harsher stances on Iran and...

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Trump to Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

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/ March 8th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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President Trump officially announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, exempting Mexico and Canada. Critics argue this could spark a trade war, while some in favor say that this is part of his 'America First' agenda. The plan also has unlikely supporters in large unions and some...

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Contrarian or Jerk?

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/ March 5th, 2018 / By Debilyn Molineaux

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We all know them -- and we may be them. Who? People who seem to tear down every idea, project or dream we’ve been carefully crafting and protecting. Us dreamers are gonna dream -- and to make dreams a reality, we actually need the contrarians in our lives to help us. The challenge we have...

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Democratic Memo Released

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/ March 1st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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Earlier this week, the House Intelligence Committee released a Democratic response to the Republican memo which had stipulated misconduct from the FBI and Justice Department. The Democrats' highly redacted response suggested that the panel’s Republican majority had cherry-picked and...

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Living Room Conversations at the Unrig the System Summit

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/ February 26th, 2018 / By Beth G. Raps

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Living Room Conversations was recently represented at a major transpartisan conference— Unrig the System Summit —by our Chief Technical Officer Martin Wallace (who’s also one of the brains behind our beautiful new website ). In this post, Martin shares some of his experiences at Unrig,...

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Parkland Teens Launch Gun Debate

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/ February 22nd, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, students from Florida are pushing for increased gun control measures, such as a ban on assault weapons. After leading several protests across the state, a group from Stoneman Douglas High School appeared in a town hall led by CNN on Wednesday...

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/ February 15th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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A school shooting in Parkland, FL on Wednesday left 17 students and educators dead. In the wake of the tragedy, many lawmakers on the Left called for increased gun control, while several on the Right, including President Trump, advocated for better awareness surrounding mental health...

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Middle of the Room Conversations

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/ February 12th, 2018 / By Pedro Silva

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As I sat in the front row of Second Baptist Church of Boulder, Colorado waiting to be called up to join my fellow panelists, I found myself wondering what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would think of this moment. On this Saturday morning, some fifty years after he was assassinated,...

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Russia Infiltrates 2016 Voter Rolls

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/ February 8th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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Russia infiltrated voter rolls during the 2016 election, according to a U.S. cybersecurity official. Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said that 21 states were targeted but that "an exceptionally small number of them were actually...

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Trump's First State of the Union

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/ February 1st, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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President Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, and reactions varied widely across the aisle. Many on the Right celebrated the speech as presidential, while many on the Left criticized Trump for what they felt was divisive rhetoric, particularly surrounding the...

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Politico Media Bias Update

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/ February 1st, 2018 / By lpinto

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Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We also completed an analysis of CNN where we kept the media bias rating for CNN Web News as Center, but created a new page for CNN Opinion (Far Left). After...

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Government Shutdown Ends

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/ January 25th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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The government shutdown came to an end after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that DACA legislation would advance to the Senate floor no later than Feb. 8th . Many Right-leaning outlets celebrated the news as a victory, while many...

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Daily Beast Media Bias Update

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/ January 25th, 2018 / By lpinto

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Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We also completed an analysis of CNN where we updated the media bias rating for CNN Web News (Center) and created a new page for CNN Opinion (Far Left). And we did...

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A Parish Administrator's Perspective on Civil Disagreement

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/ January 25th, 2018 / By Bruce Friesen

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I used to think I knew what I stood for, what my make up as a person was. As the years go by, I’ve realized I’m not what I used to be. I have never wanted to be perceived with labels, but I knew where I fell. A conservative on the right, not the far right but let me make it clear that my...

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Government Shutdown Looms

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/ January 19th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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The government is potentially hours away from a shutdown if Democrats and Republicans are unable to compromise. The House passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open and continue funding the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which expires today. But...

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Living Room Conversations for Inclusive Campus Environments

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/ January 19th, 2018 / By Jessica Shryack

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Minnesota has some of the worst gaps in educational attainment in the country. That’s not really news anymore. What may be news to people living outside the state, however, is the degree of ethnic and class segregation in our apparently progressive “best places to live” Twin Cities. Our...

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Bridging the Divide on Free Speech

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/ January 18th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

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Should all speech be protected? Is some speech too hateful for the public sphere? When it comes to free speech on campus, the left and right diverge on how to move forward. But is there common ground? This article is the first in a series representing a collaboration between The Saturday...

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December 2017 Jobs Report

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/ January 11th, 2018 / By JohnSGable

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The Labor Department released the December 2017 jobs report, and media outlets across the aisle have had varying reactions to the raw data. The U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs, falling short of what economists expected for the month, but unemployment remained at 4.1%, which is a 17-year...

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