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The Media Bias Chart (Check your bias?)
All Generalizations are False ^ | Vanessa Otero

Posted on 03/09/2018 11:00:33 AM PST by rpierce

I ran across this "Media Bias" chart today out on the interwebs. My first response upon examining it closely was that I had entered some kind of reality distortion field. I decided to go to the source to check out the thinking and methodology.

It's worth reading through as an intellectual exercise. The author/creator Vanessa Otero, an admittedly "moderately liberal" patent attorney in Denver, has created the All Generalizations are False site supporting the chart. While finding much to disagree with in her finished product, I found her writing interesting, reasonable, and instructive.

Here's a MarketWatch article that gives their take on it.


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: mediabiasnews
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To: ClearCase_guy

The NPR and BBC are neutral? In whose universe?

As regards the un-self-aware New York Times,
they reported ...

“Unlike in the United States, where the press is perceived as a watchdog, in Italy it is perceived as driven by political agendas.”


21 posted on 03/09/2018 2:06:08 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: TBP

Hope it didn’t take you too long to figure that out. LOL


22 posted on 03/09/2018 2:06:45 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: rpierce

Interesting in her placement of Infowars.

HOORAY Alex Jones!


23 posted on 03/09/2018 5:38:10 PM PST by PGalt
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

I agree that Journalism has been allowed to evoke an (unwarranted) assumption that it is objective—as if by default, barring some concerted effort, journalists (and the human organizations bundling and wrapping them) are naturally unbiased, objective reporters of universal fact and truth.

Thank you greatly for your excellent response and addition to the topic. This is environment you used to find much more on FR (”Come let us reason together”).


24 posted on 03/09/2018 6:38:11 PM PST by rpierce (We have taglines now?)
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The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

 Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin
If you take those points to heart, you will collapse Vanessa Otero’s vertical axis down to a horizontal line.

25 posted on 03/10/2018 8:09:32 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Ping.


26 posted on 03/13/2018 9:58:51 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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