Board research project

[pixy0stix]

Compile a list of news sources with their slants: Liberal, Conservative, Whack-job (for both sides), and Satire. Or whatever other designation you would like.

I'll come back and put them into one post and link it in the sticky thread.

[meshaliuknits]

HuffPo: left
Wonkette: satire
MSNBC: left
Fox News: right

I'm not sure where I'd put aljezera.

[smock]

Should there be a neutral? I mean, ideally there should be neutral news sources, but do any actually exist?

[pixy0stix]

Jun 5, 2015 10:48:23 GMT -5 smock said:

Should there be a neutral? I mean, ideally there should be neutral news sources, but do any actually exist?

Yes. Sorry I forgot about that.

[smock]

Jun 5, 2015 10:48:54 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jun 5, 2015 10:48:23 GMT -5 smock said:

Should there be a neutral? I mean, ideally there should be neutral news sources, but do any actually exist?

Yes. Sorry I forgot about that.

Phew. I was worried that neutral was no longer a viable category!

[downtoearth]

Here is a cool website that shows one article from the left, right, and center for major news articles.

www.allsides.com/news

[smock]

Jun 5, 2015 10:54:32 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Here is a cool website that shows one article from the left, right, and center for major news articles.

www.allsides.com/news

That's awesome, I hadn't heard of that site before. Very interesting.

Here is there chart for different news sources:

[downtoearth]

So from that website these one's were refereced as

Center: Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, CNN, AllSides (themselves), Politico, BBC

Right: Town Hall, The Blaze, Washtington Times, Fox News (twice), Newsmax

Left: Washington Post(three times), Salon, New York Times (twice), Huffington Post, Vox.com

[pixy0stix]

ooooo... that chart is neat.

I wish CNN hadn't started sucking the big one.

[MrsAxilla]

Ah-HA!!! I knew CNN was neutral! Somehow I feel validated that I get all my news from them.

[downtoearth]

But, is the problem really that we don't know that some of our sources are biased. I mean, most people who post a mother jones article, say, "I know this is Mother Jones, but it brings up point X,Y,Z." Maybe I am grumpy, but I don't get this whole exercise.

[lya]

Huh, that chart is really interesting. I've just been kinda of rolling my eyes when those leaning right make claims about the "liberal media." But from this chart, it seems like its true. The majority of the mainstream media outlets do seem to lean left. I don't think I actually realized that was true.

[lya]

Jun 5, 2015 11:25:06 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

Jun 5, 2015 11:23:19 GMT -5 lya said:

Huh, that chart is really interesting. I've just been kinda of rolling my eyes when those leaning right make claims about the "liberal media." But from this chart, it seems like its true. The majority of the mainstream media outlets do seem to lean left. I don't think I actually realized that was true.

yeah but 9 lean left while there are 8 hard rights. i would take a leaning org - left or right - over a hard line any day

Granted.  But I wouldn't call most of them mainstream.  For me, I can correctly identify the hard lefts and hard rights.  But I was under the impression that more of the lean left were actually center.  I knew that MSNBC leans left, but I didn't realize that ABC and CBS do as well. 

I would also be interested in when the hard right outlets were started, or became popular.  I wonder if it was in part a reaction to the left leaning mainstream.

[josieposy]

Where do we put local news in this? Do we just have to take it with a bit of skepticism, because some news stations and local papers have been accused of leaning one way or the other for local politics?

Also, my idea.