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May 18 2021
News
Ponytails and braids: Signs of a more inclusive US military
What may seem like a superficial change in grooming standards signals a sea change in attitudes about military strength.
On a Pentagon stage earlier this year, three senior noncommissioned officers – all men – discussed the merits of changing the Army’s appearance regulations for women.
The town hall, broadcast online, turned to whether women should be allowed to wear stud
Christian Science MonitorJan 20 2021
Perspectives Blog
AllSides Moves CNN’s Bias Rating to Left
CNN’s AllSides Media Bias Rating™ has shifted from Lean Left to Left.
After analyzing the results of our November 2020 Blind Bias Survey, in which 2,285 people across the political spectrum blindly rated CNN's content, AllSides moved CNN's Media Bias Rating™ from Lean Left to Left on Jan. 15, 2021. The average rating from people across the political spectrum for CNN was Left.
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Julie MastrineSep 07 2020
Fact Check
Did More People Watch the RNC Than the DNC?
A graphic created by Students for Trump that compares the viewership of the Republican National Convention and Democratic National convention has gone viral on social media, even getting reshared by Donald Trump Jr.
As noted in the small text in the lower left-hand corner, the graphic shows only how many people watched the conventions on C-SPAN’s YouTube channel, which was one of many
The DispatchOct 18 2019
Opinion
Why White Privilege is Wrong—Part 2
Many people enjoy invoking race as an explanation for all sorts of things. It is a shared pastime for both the far-left and the far-right. The media expend vast sums of money and effort to ensure we don’t escape discussions about race as something that is or should be important. This vocal minority of political extremists and news broadcasters has directed our attention away from more powerful
QuilletteJun 21 2012
News
Supreme Court Overturns Fleeting Expletives Ruling, Ducks Larger Issues
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the Federal Communications Commission's policy on fleeting expletives over the airwaves, vacating the lower court's decision on due process and fair notice grounds. It ducked the larger First Amendment issues about regulating broadcast indecency in Fox v. FCC.
The Court took issue with the fact that the FCC did not fully articul
HuffPostJun 17 2012
News
Romney Mum On Whether He'd Nix Immigration Order
Mitt Romney declined to say whether, if elected president, he would nix the Obama administration's controversial new order allowing potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to avoid deportation. In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," Romney criticized the move by the Department of Homeland Security as political and a
Fox News DigitalDec 30 2013
Opinion
Media’s Top 10 Most Embarrassing Predictions of 2013
Print, broadcast or web, the media sure aren’t Nostradamus. In spite of their best attempts, the news media have gotten it wrong prediction after prediction on a wide range of business and economic issues in 2013. Just in the past year, reporters warned of “economic doomsday,” thought Healthcare.gov was going to be “easy” just like Amazon.com, and warned of melting polar ice, even as a new
NewsBustersOct 27 2022
Perspectives Blog
2022 Midterm Elections: Latest News, Polls and Examples of Media Bias
This blog is tracking major news, updates, poll data, examples of media bias and more on the 2022 midterm elections.
Click here for a map of key races to watch and more 2022 election information and resources.
Get Live Results on the 2022 ElectionsNovember 9, 2022
Major news outlets across the spectrum are providing live results and updates on the 2022
AllSides StaffSep 11 2019
News
Tired of TV debates? In Arab world, they’re historic, and inspiring.
The 2011 Arab Spring’s sole success story, Tunisia holds its second-ever free presidential elections Sept. 15. But the most remarkable feature of the voters’ two-week crash course on the many candidates has been three nights of televised debates. For the first time in the Arab world, leading candidates took to a stage to debate policy and defend their track records. Across the region, the
Christian Science MonitorJul 04 2012
News
U.S. Asks Court to Reconsider Political Ads on Public Stations
The U.S. government has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider an April decision that would open the door for public-broadcasting stations to accept political advertisements.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found in the 2-1 April decision that a federal law prohibiting public television and radio stations from airing political advertising was
Wall Street Journal (News)