Viral News Chart Discussion

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Ernie
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Sometime ago I think it was Dan Z that posted this chart.

What do you think? Is the chart itself skewed?

https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/viral- ... ased-media


Any other charts that you think are better?
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Must be some better ones around - my filter thinks this one is indecent.
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My current favorite is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ - not a chart, but it lists news sources on a spectrum. I like it because (1) it has a methodology that involves getting ratings from people across the political spectrum, and there is good agreement among them, and (2) the results seem about right to me.

So pick a news source and see where it lands below. I tend to like the left-center, least biased, and right-center sources best, when you go to the extreme left and right it starts to dissolve into propaganda.
On their scale, for instance, the Washington Post and New York Times are both Left-Center Bias. On the chart in the OP, they are closer to the center. I think Left-Center is more accurate.
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I think the chart fairly accurate. We can quibble about specifics. The truthrevolt article believes that NYT, CBS, etc are to the left, while I consider major corporations are mostly to the right.
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