Posted on 04/29/2017 9:09:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Where’s your favorite information source stand on the political scale?
I’ve updated the following subjective chart based on information compiled from various sources and your feedback. Some sources have shifted left or right, others have been added including: ESPN, McClatchy, the Federalist, Conservative Review, Washington Monthly, Twitchy, Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse.
Please note that outlets on left and right sometimes publish material that’s on the opposite side of the political spectrum, or that has no political leaning at all. The placement is based on perceived overall tone and audience. Position on the chart doesn’t necessarily imply credibility or lack thereof. Sources on far right and far left have, in many instances, produced excellent, factually correct information at times.
I have loosely placed more traditional information sources in the top half of the chart working down toward aggregators, fact-checkers, opinion sites and less news-related sources. (This posed some position challenges since most of traditional information sources are left-leaning.) I did not attempt to place individual programs or broadcasts.
Compiling such a chart is obviously difficult for many reasons, some of them having to do with space. The spacing should be considered relative and not an indicator of absolute position. A number of the information sources technically belong on top of one another.
You have contributed terrific ideas, such as sizing boxes based on audience, and dividing into quadrants. This is a work in progress. Thanks for your input!
Chart below in posts
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Drudgereport is a news aggregator....how does one label that either left or right? Sorry infowars is just an insanity place full of nonsense, lies, and twisted stories
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Would like to see another axis about reliability of facts. For example WND and Breitbart are both right wing, but WND is not as credible as Breitbart. Of course its not clear if there would be much in the quadrant of both credible and leftwing.
Would like to see another axis about reliability of facts. For example WND and Breitbart are both right wing, but WND is not as credible as Breitbart. Of course its not clear if there would be much in the quadrant of both credible and leftwing.
With respect to Atkinsson, this is wrong. A detailed study a few years ago by political scientist Tim Groseclose of UCLA, using accepted (even by the left) and established measures of “media bias,” produced a MUCH different chart.
Groseclose showed that Forbes, Fox, the WSJ were about 3-4 points to the left of center of the American population; that there were only two that fell (barely) to the right. Surprisingly, one was McNeil Lehrer. No, he did not include things like OAN, Washington Times, or National Review, but of those purporting to be “legitimate news” sources, there were virtually none tilted right.
This chart is not weighted according to viewerhip or readership of each outlet or total aggregated customers. If it was the left side would be 10 time larger and show that conservatives have been getting their arses kicked down the block when it comes to communication. The left is smarter than us, far more media savvy, and I’ve seen no analysis of this shortcoming that indicates a pathway to a solution.
We’ve allowed the left to gain controlling influence in news, entertainment, academia, youth culture, activism, etc. Blacks used to vote 100% Republican until WWI. Teddy Roosevelt, in his split from the GOP for many of the same reasons of corruption and cronyism that turned our present GOP against Trump, ran for President in 1912 as the PROGRESSIVE PARTY candidate. Google it.
Yah, right, does not compute. So what the ding dong hell happened between WWI and the 1929 stock market crash that turned the Democrats into the “party of the people” inclusive of black American voters; and turned the Republicans into the party of Jim Crow, right wing fascist globalism, aristocratic Nietschieanism and cultural ignorance helpless against the onslaught of liberalism upon our nation of freeborn.
It takes a special kind of stupid to lose control of a society that one created, to see it brought to the brink of civil war. I’m waiting for an analysis and a correction. This is no time for cliches, habitual evasions or delusional thinking. 90% of the MSM are liberal, we do nothing but piss and moan about this glaring face slapping fact 24/7. So why is it that the 21st Century finds us chronically on the defensive?
You need to check your facts regarding the party of Jim Crow.
What was the party affiliation of George Wallace, J. William Fulbright, Orval Faubus, Nathan Bedford Forrest?
turned the Republicans into the party of Jim Crow,?????
Did somebody actually Teach you This?? You might want to check your “taught” facts.
They need to move the midline 2 inches to the right.
there are some Freepers who know way too much way before anybody else knows it.....
Drudge report is a Conservative site. Just because it includes Liberal articles doesn't make it a politically balanced site.
Drudge is a news aggregator
The Guardian and the Observer, its Sunday paper, are farther left than most American media. I'd put them on the fringe. The political cartoons alone are worse than what you see in American papers.
It's noteworthy that they don't put National Review very far to the right at all, but in some ways, they may still be more conservative than The Weekly Standard. Fox News is, all in all, still more conservative than either magazine.
Also, a lot depends on foreign policy. Commentary is pretty far to the right if you mean aggressive or militant in foreign affairs, and the American Conservative is a lot more moderate or liberal when it comes to foreign policy.
If you're taking Breitbart or WND as the standard, TAC probably doesn't belong out there with them on the fringe, because some of their contributors (and scads of their commenters) are quite liberal indeed.
Esquire and Rolling Stone are definitely far left, but it's hard to take them seriously as political magazines, the writers and the readers not being as grimly activist as those from, say, the Nation.
What Atkisson does get right is that nowadays, with Donald Trump in the White House, the New Yorker may be further left than such a long-time hard-core left mag like Mother Jones. The people who are yelling extra-loud about Trump drown out those who've been yelling for years and have gotten hoarse over time.
Where is FR on that list?
Explain to me the Republican Party’s complete abandonment of its underwriting of the Emancipation Proclamation by the end of WWI. Republicanism, the ideology that waged ceaseless warfare against birthright caste tyranny and feudal fief slavery from before the Middle Ages, you know, that bit about “inalienable rights”, became what it fought against insofar as it was controlled by what John Birch referred to as the “Eastern Liberal Establishment” and what we now call the globalist neocon oligarchy, up until the candidacy of Donald Trump. We need to take our butts out of our heads and get a handle on HOW WE LOST POWER. What was the socio-psychological dynamic that saw a clot of pagan hippie dopers rip control of media, academia, entertainment and youth subculture straight out of our hands like taking candy from a baby? Rather than address the structural strategic points I make about our failure, my post gets nitpicked. As Einstein said, making the same mistake again and expecting a different result is the definition of stupid.
“The left is smarter than us, far more media savvy,”
I respectfully disagree. We on the right tend to be moral. So we don’t lie without compunction. So we’re just as smart and just as savvy we just can’t bring ourselves to do what comes naturally to liberals.
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