Posted on 12/06/2024 6:45:35 AM PST by vespa300
The Los Angeles Times’ owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday revealed he has been working “behind the scenes” to create a “bias meter” for every article that comes out of the newspaper.
He said he hopes the new tool, which will be backed by artificial intelligence, will be released by January.
It’s the businessman’s latest project to balance out the newsroom, after he vowed to bring more conservative voices to the paper and faced heated backlash for blocking the paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
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This is the move an idiot makes when he refuses to fire employees that will not toe the company line.
>>This is the move an idiot makes when he refuses to fire employees that will not toe the company line.>>
Except he fired the whole editorial board.
LOL. Save some money and just put a picture of a meter with the arrow pointing “Extreme Left.”
Sum Ting Wong at the LA Times.
Doesn’t Newsweak have this feature? It may help if media outlets actually respect it.
“Except he fired the whole editorial board.”
Then it is time the owner brought in new reporting talent and to fire the communist reporters.
I’d add: the only problem is that it may end up being self selecting. Maybe have a Captcha before submission that asks the submitter to prove they aren’t a Lefty nutcase trying to skew results because you don’t like the story.
>>Sum Ting Wong at the LA Times.>>
Sounds like Sum Ting Rite at the LA Times. The owner fired the left wing editorial board, he just hired conservative Scott Jennings to be on it, the guy on CNN that stands up to all the libs there. He wants more conservative viewpoints at the paper, and now a bias meter .....
Sum Ting Rite going on there
He stated he wants more conservative views and balance at the paper. I applaud what he’s doing.
Conservative views are considered fascist by the left. There is no accommodation by them. It’s the totalitarian in them.
I do applaud what he is doing but this labeling thing on his own papers articles is just a band-aid that doesn’t address the problem of biased leftists hijackjng his paper.
The lib media doesn’t need an AI powered bias meter. Just glue the needle permanently on ‘Woke’ or ‘Progressive’, both synonyms for ‘Communist’.
The only problem with something like a “bias meter” is that a biased person gets to decide what is biased and what isn’t usually. Rarely would they be objective i think
Agree. It doesn’t take much effort to determine where all the Leftist vitriol is coming from on the paper’s staff. Get to the source and root out the problem instead of trying to put a band-aid on it. Simply firing those people will send a firm message that professionalism is now the basis for employment and that more balanced reporting is expected.
Well reasoned views on both sides will be respected, but outright propaganda, personal attacks and intolerance will not be acceptable.
At least now the reader will be able to push a button to get ‘both sides of the story.’ Interesting to see how this will work.
LOL. You can bet that any bias meter will itself be biased.
There would be a “far right” label but never a “far left” one.
Sure, but will the new AI be biased or fair?
What a joke!
I’m sure the LA Times will get lots and lots of subscribers after this.
I live in the area and walk my dogs around a five block residential area in the morning - I’ve noticed only ONE LA Times on anyone’s driveway. A generation ago, every driveway had a copy of the LA Times on it.
The LA Times is a lefty newspaper that constantly insulted its readers by featuring illegal alien sob stories on its front pages.
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