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Feb 21 2022
Perspectives Blog
What is Media Bias?
What is media bias? What is the definition of media bias, and what does it mean to be biased?
AllSides provides over 1,400 Media Bias Ratings for media outlets, fact checkers, writers and more. We also created the AllSides Media Bias Chart™ and AllSides Fact Check Bias Chart™ to make media bias ratings easy to visualize. What does it mean for news outlet to show media bias?
Media Julie MastrineOct 07 2015
Background
Media bias
Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article. The direction and degree of media bias in
WikipediaJan 24 2024
News
After Trump's Win in New Hampshire, The Liberal Media Suffered Another Meltdown
It’s hitting them, and the liberal media doesn’t know what to do. Former President Donald Trump trounced former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who vowed to fight on despite this being the contest to halt Trump’s momentum. It’s over. Either Haley doesn’t know it yet, or she’s being forced to continue this unrealistic bid for the 2024 Republican nomination by the liberal donor class.
TownhallJan 17 2020
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Watch: Bias by Photo
AllSides frequently provides case studies that illustrate how media bias appears. Read more about the 11 Types of Media Bias here.
Media bias manifests in many different ways — on this blog, we’ve shown you how it can appear as bias by omission, sensationalism, and bias by placement. We’ve identified 11 different types of media bias to watch out for. Another obvious way bias manifests
Julie MastrineApr 16 2024
News
The WWII soldier who died fighting for the "precious ideals" of liberal arts education
There's been a ton written lately about the slow death of liberal arts education. I am a huge believer that exposure to the liberal arts is crucial — it makes individuals better and makes society better as a whole. It's how we pass on values and a common history. Without it, there's no institutional memory. There's just whatever happened a week ago, a month ago. Whatever we heard on social
Boing BoingJan 14 2020
Analysis
The sentinel of the liberal media
EVERY MORNING AT SEVEN, Kyle Drennen, thirty-four, settles into his living room in suburban Fairfax, Virginia, with a bowl of cereal and turns on NBC. He spends thirty minutes or so watching the hard-news segments at the top of the Today show before heading to work at NewsBusters, a nonprofit that monitors the media, eleven miles down the road in Reston. He arrives most days at about eight
Columbia Journalism ReviewApr 08 2024
News
Judge Who Gagged Trump To Hide Extreme Bias Must Recuse
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a motion for recusal last week against Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over President Donald Trump’s hush-money case set to begin trial on April 15, for alleged conflicts of interest. The judge has well-established political biases — which look particularly bad in light of his recent unlawful gag order that prohibits Trump from making
The FederalistDec 06 2022
Perspectives Blog
Are Conservative or Liberal Media Outlets More Popular?
The AllSides Media Bias Chart™ might give the false impression that all of its featured outlets are read equally, when in reality, some have much more influence than others.
Pulling back the curtain and seeing which news sources people actually read can give us a better understanding of how the news media relates to the public. For instance, an AllSides analysis found that a handful of
Joseph Ratliff