Glenn Beck
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| Bias Rating | Right |
| Type | Author |
| Region | National |
| @glennbeck | |
| GlennBeck | |
| Wikipedia | Glenn Beck |
About Glenn Beck's Bias Rating
Glenn Beck is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Right.
What a "Right" Rating Means
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Right display media bias in ways that strongly align with conservative, traditional, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Right bias is the most conservative rating on the political spectrum.
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Glenn Beck publicly has a far right bias, which the AllSides Bias Rating™ upholds. Although he began his career with socially liberal views, over time, he moved to the right. Beck more recently describes himself as a conservative libertarian, listing personal responsibility, limited government and socially conservative values as the cornerstones of society. Beck currently has a television and radio show on The Blaze, a multiplatform conservative news network he founded.
According to the 2014 Pew Research Study, Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum, a majority (86%) of Glenn Beck’s audience hold political values to the political right or right-of-center. About 3% of Glenn Beck's audience holds left or left-of-center political values (compared with 38% of all respondents to the survey). Roughly 10% of Glenn Beck's audience is considered to hold mixed or center-aligned political values (compared with 36% of all respondents to the survey).
More on Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is an American television personality and radio host, author, television network producer, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He worked on radio for over 20 years before switching to television, when he joined CNN in 2006. Beck moved to Fox News in 2008, then left in 2011 to found his own news network. As an author, he has reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in four separate categories.
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Wikipedia: Glenn Beck
Biography: Glenn Beck
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