News Sources Evaluated. (This web page may be expand as new information is revealed to the blogger.)
When I started researching news sources I was surprised to find a number of web sites that presented large page boxes showing where major sources fit within their box according to horizontal and vertical criteria – rather clever! You can view some different website boxes next.
WEBSITES THAT REVIEW NEWS SOURCES. THE RESULTS ARE SHOWN IN PART BY SHOWING YOU GRAPHICAL BOXES – CLEVER:
- AllSides Media Bias Chart
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
_______ - News Media Across the Political Spectrum
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/newsleans/thechart
This chart is way more expansive and inclusive than AllSides.
______ - The Media Bias Chart ®
https:///goshencountysd/GCSDLib/HSchools/Media-Bias-Chart-7.0_January-2021-Licensed-Copy-kqpxtc.pdf
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- “Fake News,” Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction
https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
This graphic box, is very limited in the number of news sources it shows but interesting.
SELECTED NEWS SOURCES:
- MSNBC. “MSNBC is a news and political commentary organization that has been the focus of several controversies. It has been accused by academics, media figures, political figures, and watchdog groups of having various biases in their news coverage as well as more general views of a liberal bias. Most of these controversies took place during the 2008–2015 era.” Wikipedia. MSNBC is Score Card’s favorite evening new show because it is dedicated to protecting Democracy and thus not supporting Donald Trump
RECOMMEND PODCASTS:
The following list of podcasts does NOT come from any independent source but from this blogger, Score Card. There are so many podcasts that it is hard to make recommendations based on independent reviews.
- Background Briefing.
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/
With Ian Masters who is a champion for continued Democracy. This is Score Card’s #1 podcast because Ian Masters highly values Democracy and is working hard to keep it that way! - The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word
- All In with Chris Hayes. https://www.msnbc.com/all
- The Rachel Maddow Show. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
NOT RECOMMEND AND ALLEGEDLY FLAWED NEWS SOURCES:
- FOX NEWS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News
“Fox News has been characterized as a propaganda outlet. Its coverage has included biased reporting in favor of the Republican Party, its politicians, and conservative causes, while portraying the Democratic Party in a negative light. Critics have argued that the channel is damaging to the integrity of news overall.[“. Wikipedia - SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
“The company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations.”
“The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported “fake news” in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC.”
- TRUTH SOCIAL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social
“Owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by former U.S. president Donald Trump.”
“Use by right-wing extremists”. ” Noah Berlatsky, writing for The Independent, described it as a “potential threat to democracy”
Truth Social has been described as an alt-tech[4][5][6] social media platform. Such platforms are popular among the alt-right, far-right, and others who espouse extremism or fringe theories, often because they employ less stringent content moderation than mainstream platforms.”
Review by FORBES John Brandon, Senior Contributor. “I Finally Tested Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ App And Here’s What I Discovered: it’s essentially Twitter for conservatives, my one big surprise is that it appears to be an app designed to promote a future Trump campaign.”
NEWS BIAS STUDIES:
Knight Foundation study
“PERCEIVED ACCURACY AND BIAS IN THE NEWS MEDIA”
Are news organizations biased such that they promote an outcome that their customers should buy into? This study definitely proves that this IS the case! This study seems to say that each individual who has a political bias then views each news sources as biased to follow their political group.
This study really covers how different groups of individuals who fall within a group of right vs left viewpoints believe each news organization is biased in a direction that their group believes.. And, gosh the differences are revealing! Below is only one example of the study’s presentation.
EXAMPLE:
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- DEMOCRATS RATED MOST OF THE MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AS BEING ACCURATE, EXCEPT FOR FOX NEWS AND BREITBART NEWS.
- REPUBLICANS RATED MOST OF THE MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AS INACCURATE, EXCEPT FOR FOX NEWS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND BREITBART NEWS
This might help explain why the support for President Biden and Donald Trump is so close to being equal. Truth fails to prevail because too many Americas fail to understand what the truth is and maybe fail to value truth.
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POSTED JUNE 29, 2024
POSTED BY: Score Card
