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15 Headlines from 2nd Presidential Debate: Fact Checks, Polls, Analysis

News / October 17th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Energy policy, gas prices, women, Libya, taxes, and jobs: these are tricky topics from last night’s presidential debate that continue to be debated by all sides of the media today. In fact, there is even a bit of debate over who won. See what you think. We'll start with news from the Left...

News, Bias

15 Headlines from the VP Debate

News / October 12th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

One thing all sides seem to agree on: last night's debate between VP candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan was one of the liveliest we've seen in a while. But from there the agreements in opinion start to break down. We picked three very different opinions on the VP debate that we...

News, Bias

Electoral Map Overview: Poll Hysteria and Bias

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

There is a constant onslaught of polling data every day from the 24 hours news cycle. It is overwhelming. And ridiculous. Poll results are very different depending on the source . Above is an overview of how the electoral maps look now, showing the AllSides Bias Rating (ABR) by each. Not...

News, Bias

15 Headlines from First Debate

Bias / October 3rd, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

It is always fun and revealing to see the different headlines for the same event, especially a big event loaded with politics like the first Presidential debate. I picked prominent headlines on the front pages: From the Left: Huffington Post: " Romney wins the night " or same story with a...

News

Bias Through Omission: Terrorists Behind the Attacks in Libya

Bias / September 30th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

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...

News, Bias, Journalism

Romney Video Story: AllSides News Bias Pick of the Week

Bias / September 20th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Every week we highlight a news story where the coverage showed so much contrast that it revealed bias. This week a video of candidate Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser got a great deal of attention and news sources were flying their bias flags high. Here’s what we noticed... On the...

News, Bias

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

Perspectives Blog

When Republicans Go Back to Their Pre-Reagan Roots

15 Headlines from 2nd Presidential Debate: Fact Checks, Polls, Analysis

15 Headlines from the VP Debate

Electoral Map Overview: Poll Hysteria and Bias

15 Headlines from First Debate

Bias Through Omission: Terrorists Behind the Attacks in Libya

Romney Video Story: AllSides News Bias Pick of the Week

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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