Evaluating News Sites for Bias
Media Bias Chart 4.0 The central premise of this chart is a qualification of the idea that we can’t “trust the biased media.” Generalizing mainstream media in that way assumes that all mainstream media has a bias (usually assumed to be liberal). This chart is meant to argue that, while there is bias in the media, there is no single focus of that bias. There is no one, monolithic "the media." There are media companies that are biased liberal and there are media companies that are biased conservative and there are those that stick closely to the ethics of objective journalism. Because of the nature of the Internet and social media, millions of people every day share memes and photos and biased information without any context or analysis of where they come from. A passive, uninformed media consumer may be unconsciously influenced by whichever media is readily available or may gravitate toward sources that speak to his or her unconscious biases. However, it is possible for yo...