Media Bias Fact Checks
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:54 pm
I'm looking for media bias fact checks that are (1) fairly objective, (2) nonpartisan, and (3) easy for most people to apply. Here's one that looks good to me:
Media Bias Fact Check
This website rates various publications and places them into categories, using a reasonably clear methodology. Here are the categories they use:
Media Bias Fact Check
I like these categories because I suspect that people with different political leanings could still look at the same article and come to reasonably good agreement on how to rate various articles using these criteria, and the categories aren't biased toward any particular political agenda. I also think these categories can help you learn to read intelligently, knowing when you should be suspicious of an article. (Of course, knowing how good the sourcing is requires some expertise, and takes time, but the rest is straightforward.)
- Biased Wording/Headlines: Does the source use loaded words to convey emotion to sway the reader. Do headlines match the story.
- Factual/Sourcing: Does the source report factually and back up claims with well sourced evidence.
- Story Choices: Does the source report news from both sides or do they only publish one side.
- Political Affiliation: How strongly does the source endorse a particular political ideology? In other words how extreme are their views. (This can be rather subjective)
This website rates various publications and places them into categories, using a reasonably clear methodology. Here are the categories they use:
- Left Bias
- Left-Center Bias
- Least Biased
- Right-Center Bias
- Right Bias
- Pro-Science
- Conspiracy-Pseudoscience
- Questionable Sources
- Satire
- Top World News
- Least Biased News
- Left News
- Left-Center News
- Right-Center News
- Right News