Media Bias Fact Check Leans RIght

[calamity]

lol...I decided to check out a few news sources this morning on the Media Bias fact check site and found myself rather amused.

First, they call the Economist "least biased," and they plop it dead-center on the left-right continuum.

The Economist - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Well, hate to say but the Economist leans right. It's factual for sure, but their bias is always pro-business, which by definition is Right.

They seem to be on target with the Wall Street Journal, calling it to the right of center-right.

Wall Street Journal - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slight to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words

mediabiasfactcheck.com

And, they nail it with Fox, pushing it toward the extreme Right.

Fox News (foxnews.com) - Bias and Credibility

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no

mediabiasfactcheck.com

But, they totally blow it on CNN, WaPo and NYT.

New York Times - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Left-Center? Hmmm....I see more Center-Right in those pages.

Washington Post - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Washington post is not left-center. They are dead center. Certainly they are more center than the Economist.

CNN - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

CNN is not "Left." How on earth can a source that allows Lou Dobbs, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and god knows how many other far right personalities launch their careers on their airwaves be "Left"? And, that is not even counting all the Far Right "contributors" they give voice to who say the damnedest of stupid things unchallenged on the station or in their op ed section.
CNN is slightly Left of Center at most.

 

[Mycroft]

Why do you need a "fact checker" to tell you whether someone is left or right? Can't you figure that out for yourself?

What makes their opinion any more reliable than your own?

Oh...wait...could it be you don't have the ability to form an opinion unless you check in with some fact checker first?

 

[calamity]

Why do you need a "fact checker" to tell you whether someone is left or right? Can't you figure that out for yourself?

What makes their opinion any more reliable than your own?

Oh...wait...could it be you don't have the ability to form an opinion unless you check in with some fact checker first?

I'm fact checking the fact checkers. That is what this thread is about. Pay attention.

Even if that is a challenge, it's required for this thread.

 

[Mycroft]

I'm fact checking the fact checkers. That is what this thread is about. Pay attention.

Even if that is a challenge, it's required for this thread.

And I'm asking why you care about fact checkers.

Did that point sail over your head?

 

[calamity]

And I'm asking why you care about fact checkers.

Did that point sail over your head?

I understood your stupid question. You apparently failed to grasp my intelligent answer.

 

[Moot]

lol...I decided to check out a few news sources this morning on the Media Bias fact check site and found myself rather amused.

First, they call the Economist "least biased," and they plop it dead-center on the left-right continuum.

The Economist - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Well, hate to say but the Economist leans right. It's factual for sure, but their bias is always pro-business, which by definition is Right.

They seem to be on target with the Wall Street Journal, calling it to the right of center-right.

Wall Street Journal - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slight to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words

mediabiasfactcheck.com

And, they nail it with Fox, pushing it toward the extreme Right.

Fox News (foxnews.com) - Bias and Credibility

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no

mediabiasfactcheck.com

But, they totally blow it on CNN, WaPo and NYT.

New York Times - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Left-Center? Hmmm....I see more Center-Right in those pages.

Washington Post - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Washington post is not left-center. They are dead center. Certainly they are more center than the Economist.

CNN - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

CNN is not "Left." How on earth can a source that allows Lou Dobbs, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and god knows how many other far right personalities launch their careers on their airwaves be "Left"? And, that is not even counting all the Far Right "contributors" they give voice to who say the damnedest of stupid things unchallenged on the station or in their op ed section.
CNN is slightly Left of Center at most.

The news is factual but It's the editorials that make them biased.

But the NYT often publishes editorials by conservatives...and push conservative causes....remember Judith Miller? And Emailgate was started by the NYT.

 

[rocket88]

And I'm asking why you care about fact checkers.

Did that point sail over your head?

It can be useful before you just blindly accept things like "massive election fraud."

 

[calamity]

It can be useful before you just blindly accept things like "massive election fraud."

To say the least.

 

[Phys251]

lol...I decided to check out a few news sources this morning on the Media Bias fact check site and found myself rather amused.

First, they call the Economist "least biased," and they plop it dead-center on the left-right continuum.

The Economist - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Well, hate to say but the Economist leans right. It's factual for sure, but their bias is always pro-business, which by definition is Right.

They seem to be on target with the Wall Street Journal, calling it to the right of center-right.

Wall Street Journal - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slight to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words

mediabiasfactcheck.com

And, they nail it with Fox, pushing it toward the extreme Right.

Fox News (foxnews.com) - Bias and Credibility

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no

mediabiasfactcheck.com

But, they totally blow it on CNN, WaPo and NYT.

New York Times - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Left-Center? Hmmm....I see more Center-Right in those pages.

Washington Post - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Washington post is not left-center. They are dead center. Certainly they are more center than the Economist.

CNN - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

CNN is not "Left." How on earth can a source that allows Lou Dobbs, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and god knows how many other far right personalities launch their careers on their airwaves be "Left"? And, that is not even counting all the Far Right "contributors" they give voice to who say the damnedest of stupid things unchallenged on the station or in their op ed section.
CNN is slightly Left of Center at most.

I believe that makes MBFC even more useful. Because if THEY say that a source is far-right bullshit, it's far-right bullshit!

 

[calamity]

I believe that makes MBFC even more useful. Because if THEY say that a source is far-right bullshit, it's far-right bullshit!

I agree...and, that is exactly what I suspected whenever Right Wingers would whine about the Media Bias site calling their source far-right bullshit.

 

[Phys251]

I agree...and, that is exactly what I suspected whenever Right Wingers would whine about the Media Bias site calling their source far-right bullshit.

Right-wingers want safe spaces where every lie they've fallen for will be called the truth.

 

[calamity]

Right-wingers want safe spaces where every lie they've fallen for will be called the truth.

They fall for so many that I believe it is fair to call them stupid.

 

[Taylor]

Sounds about right. The decline of the WaPo, NYT, and especially CNN can be seen as you look over the ratings historically.

 

[calamity]

Sounds about right. The decline of the WaPo, NYT, and especially CNN can be seen as you look over the ratings historically.

Actually, it is more like the radicalization of the Crazy Right has skewed perception to make all reasonable Centrists look like they now lean Left.

 

[Rogue Valley]

The Hill - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or

mediabiasfactcheck.com

I have to disagree here and I peruse The Hill every morning.

To me The Hill is Center-Right with a slight but noticeable right bias.

But I do give them props for forcing out John Solomon.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

CNN is not "Left." How on earth can a source that allows Lou Dobbs, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and god knows how many other far right personalities launch their careers on their airwaves be "Left"?
THAT IS NOT why CNN is viewed as Left, they have those guests on just to ridicule them the same way Fox has Liberal guests on to ridicule them.
I firmly follow mediabiasfactcheck, they usually have it right (as in correct), but each their own because let's face it folks - EVERYONE sees what they want to see, it is called the human condition.

 

[calamity]

The Hill - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or

mediabiasfactcheck.com

I have to disagree here and I peruse The Hill every morning.

To me The Hill is Center-Right with a slight but noticeable right bias.

But I do give them props for forcing out John Solomon.

Yep, the Hill is definitely Right of Center.

 

[Hatuey]

lol...I decided to check out a few news sources this morning on the Media Bias fact check site and found myself rather amused.

First, they call the Economist "least biased," and they plop it dead-center on the left-right continuum.

The Economist - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Well, hate to say but the Economist leans right. It's factual for sure, but their bias is always pro-business, which by definition is Right.

They seem to be on target with the Wall Street Journal, calling it to the right of center-right.

Wall Street Journal - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slight to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words

mediabiasfactcheck.com

And, they nail it with Fox, pushing it toward the extreme Right.

Fox News (foxnews.com) - Bias and Credibility

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no

mediabiasfactcheck.com

But, they totally blow it on CNN, WaPo and NYT.

New York Times - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Left-Center? Hmmm....I see more Center-Right in those pages.

Washington Post - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Washington post is not left-center. They are dead center. Certainly they are more center than the Economist.

CNN - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com

CNN is not "Left." How on earth can a source that allows Lou Dobbs, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and god knows how many other far right personalities launch their careers on their airwaves be "Left"? And, that is not even counting all the Far Right "contributors" they give voice to who say the damnedest of stupid things unchallenged on the station or in their op ed section.
CNN is slightly Left of Center at most.

... being pro-business is not a right wing thing. Europeans are probusiness, and socially to the left of even Democrats.

The false premise here is that to be probusiness you HAVE to be for the sociopathic capitalism preached by some in Washington. That you HAVE to support businesses poluting water ways, or eminent domain so some asshole can put in a mall in a suburb.

Being probusiness doesnt mean you are against people.

 

[calamity]

... being pro-business is not a right wing thing. Europeans are probusiness, and socially to the left of even Democrats.

The false premise here is that to be probusiness you HAVE to be for the sociopathic capitalism preached by some in Washington. That you HAVE to support businesses poluting water ways, or eminent domain so some asshole can put in a mall in a suburb.

Being probusiness doesnt mean you are against people.

Perhaps I should have chosen better wording. But, the sense I get when reading the Economist is that they promote "sociopathic capitalism." They certainly do not discourage vulture capitalism. Of course, that might just be my bias.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

Why do you need a "fact checker" to tell you whether someone is left or right? Can't you figure that out for yourself?

What makes their opinion any more reliable than your own?

Oh...wait...could it be you don't have the ability to form an opinion unless you check in with some fact checker first?

Yeah, real men don't read directions and don't need to research anything before rendering opinions that are absolute. Information? Facts? Other perspectives? That's for ******s! Make up your own damn mind and stick to it, man!

Mycroft may not always be right, but by Gawd, he's never in doubt!

 

[Mycroft]

Yeah, real men don't read directions and don't need to research anything before rendering opinions that are absolute. Information? Facts? Other perspectives? That's for ******s! Make up your own damn mind and stick to it, man!

Mycroft may not always be right, but by Gawd, he's never in doubt!

Actually, I do read directions. I do research to separate fact from nonsense. And I DON'T rely on fact checkers who have their own agenda to do my work for me.

 

[calamity]

Actually, I do read directions. I do research to separate fact from nonsense. And I DON'T rely on fact checkers who have their own agenda to do my work for me.

Did Trump win the election but had it stolen by fraud? Yes or no.

 

[Mycroft]

Did Trump win the election but had it stolen by fraud? Yes or no.

Of course.

 

[calamity]

Of course.

lol...enough said. I suggest you rely on someone credible to feed you facts other than your own misguided thoughts.

 

[ProgressPlease]

The problem with these "left/right" bias charts is there is no real definition of left and right now. The terms have been completely warped by those with agendas. Left is commie and right is nazi. Those doing the bias charts have their own bias. Those looking at the bias charts have their own bias.

I find them only so useful. Mostly for my own interest in seeing how the public may view a news source.
I would describe many of these "news sources" as in it for the money and ratings and they blow in the wind, depending on what is useful at the moment. This definitely goes for CNN and FOX, which are both basically tabloids.
The Economist is interesting. If you ask self described RWers, The Economist is now Socialist/Communist. If you ask those "on the left', The Economist is totally right wing. I find the Economist pretty balanced, depending on who is doing the writing and on what topic. In any case, it is a very interesting publication.

People no longer read and they require sound bites to ingest anything at all. TV and social media are the only places they seem to get their information. Pretty scary.