It's more important than ever to check our news sources these days. Most media outlets are trying to make money, so it's up to us to figure out their bias.
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The most and least biased news outlets in America - Business Insider
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How different news stories are presented by various news sources is rarely uniform. Different news outlets have different takes, or present different aspects of a story or highlight different facts about it, and this shapes what consumers of that news take away from the story. Add the internet and social media algorithms and you wind up with what are referred to as "filter bubbles" where, depending on which news sources you pay attention to, different people develop fundamentally different understandings of the same events or stories. We learn about AllSides Technologies, whose team uses various methods to estimate the perceived political bias of news outlets and then presents different versions of similar news stories from sources they’ve rated as being on the political right, left, or ce
Unbiased news sources are rare, but they do exist.
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This article has great graphics showing the political affiliations of the viewer bases of many shows and news sources. It is clear that Fox News shows capture a mostly conservative-leaning base, while NPR, the Daily show, and Al Jazeera capture a more liberal-leaning audience.
