Media Bias Chart (1 Viewer)

[matuski]

He is being the guy that he was when he ran.

This is who won the election. 

 

[lazyike]

NPR is center? Really?

NPR news is center according to the chart, NPR opinion is left of center. I have been listening to more NPR news and enjoy listening to the BBC which lands in the center. Nice hearing US news from someone who is not Republican or Democrat. 

 

[matuski]

NPR news is center according to the chart, NPR opinion is left of center.

This is where I start getting annoyed.  These sources start intermingling the opinion with the news, and/or represent the opinions as news.

I can't say NPR does this persay, but the websites are doing this increasingly.

 

[lazyike]

It is  stretch to call AP, BBC, NPR, Reuters, and USA Today center news sources though. They may have been before Trump but currently you would be hard pressed to find any articles not attempting to portray Trump negatively.

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Sorry but truthfully I have a hard time believing anyone wouldn’t have a hard time writing articles about Trump without portraying him negatively. Even if you give him credit for the economy his narcissism and exaggeration of how well it is doing are part of the story.

 

[joffer]

Can’t believe more news outlets didn’t find a way to spin the “human scum” comments in a positive light.  totally unfair.

 

[dkp993]

I don't think we can hold him to standards any higher than what the man was before we elected him.  This is EXACTLY what the candidate presented himself as during the campaign.

We knew him to be this and we put him there... where were our standards then?

I do not disagree at all with anything you typed here.  But it’s got to start somewhere sometime.  If we continue to excuse it away with the “all politicians lie” or “what about Obama” or “he was always this way”, or .... we’ll only continue down the path we are on and become more divided and broken.  The past 2 POTUS’s were elected under the “need for change” platform yet it’s been more of the same.  It’s long past time at this point to demand better.   

 

[ShamrockPride]

CNN has to be the worst at taking a story and just beating into the ground. By they time they are done with a story, they usually have incorrect reports that muddle the entire story so the story (and their credibility) take a major hit. See the Russia scandal and their reporting of.

See currently this Bernie/Liz thing. There's a blatantly obvious agenda, and in the days following the debate, I saw just about every major online news outlet call them out for it. They're the laughingstock right now.

 

[matuski]

I do not disagree at all with anything you typed here.  But it’s got to start somewhere sometime.  If we continue to excuse it away with the “all politicians lie” or “what about Obama” or “he was always this way”, or .... we’ll only continue down the path we are on and become more divided and broken.  The past 2 POTUS’s were elected under the “need for change” platform yet it’s been more of the same.  It’s long past time at this point to demand better.   

We implicitly reinforce it year after year, term after term.  

We also seem to be far more sensitive to the lies when it isn't our guy up there, and far less sensitive to it when our guy is up there.  

 

[Summer Wheat]

Years ago CNN used to always be my first choice in news.  The last 5-6 years I hardly watch cable news anymore because it seems to be more opinion based news than covering the stories as is.    CNN has taken some credibility hits running with stories that were not vetted properly and I wonder if they can recover and be a trustworthy news source again. I used to really like Don Lemon but now he gets too personally involved instead of just conducting a professional interview.

 

[wikkidpissah]

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[mrip541]

I can tell you from professional experience that unbiased reporting is religion at Reuters. If you think it has a left lean it might be you who is biased.

 

[cubd8]

Years ago CNN used to always be my first choice in news.  The last 5-6 years I hardly watch cable news anymore because it seems to be more opinion based news than covering the stories as is.    CNN has taken some credibility hits running with stories that were not vetted properly and I wonder if they can recover and be a trustworthy news source again. I used to really like Don Lemon but now he gets too personally involved instead of just conducting a professional interview.

Don Lemon is just another hyper partisan pretending to be telling the truth for the sake of the nation. 

 

[parasaurolophus]

This npr story is a good example of bias seeping in.

It costs just $16 to buy a one-way ticket on the Amtrak train from Chicago to Bloomington, Ill., unless you're the two people who use wheelchairs and tried to buy tickets recently. They were told their tickets will cost not $16 — but $25,000.

You can make a roundabout argument that this statement is kind of true, but it is a reach. 

They were told that in order for a group of 5 wheelchairs to ride together and sit in their wheelchairs, rather than on separate trains, that it would cost 25k. Why? Because the trains can only accommodate 3 wheelchairs on one train. So they would have to take the car out of service and physically remove seats to allow 5 to ride together. It would have to pass inspections, be transferred, etc. 

Of course that isnt as attention grabbing ofba story though.

 

[Juxtatarot]

This npr story is a good example of bias seeping in.

It costs just $16 to buy a one-way ticket on the Amtrak train from Chicago to Bloomington, Ill., unless you're the two people who use wheelchairs and tried to buy tickets recently. They were told their tickets will cost not $16 — but $25,000.

You can make a roundabout argument that this statement is kind of true, but it is a reach. 

They were told that in order for a group of 5 wheelchairs to ride together and sit in their wheelchairs, rather than on separate trains, that it would cost 25k. Why? Because the trains can only accommodate 3 wheelchairs on one train. So they would have to take the car out of service and physically remove seats to allow 5 to ride together. It would have to pass inspections, be transferred, etc. 

Of course that isnt as attention grabbing ofba story though.

To me, the story is about whether Amtrak is making reasonable accommodations for disabled patrons.  I would be willing to bet that Amtrak will change their procedures on this very soon. 

 

[parasaurolophus]

To me, the story is about whether Amtrak is making reasonable accommodations for disabled patrons.  I would be willing to bet that Amtrak will change their procedures on this very soon. 

Regardless of what the story is to you, that story as written is bad journalism and incredibly biased. 

And whether they change or not is no longer about reasonable accommodation. It is about a liberal story that sucked in a liberal senator in a wheelchair that then sucked in a bunch of people on twitter that cant read forcing potential damage control. 

Eta: here is the tweet that duckworth retweeted and commented on. 

 

[tonydead]

Media bias 101 ought to start out by differentiating opinion pieces from the news.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Regardless of what the story is to you, that story as written is bad journalism and incredibly biased. 

And whether they change or not is no longer about reasonable accommodation. It is about a liberal story that sucked in a liberal senator in a wheelchair that then sucked in a bunch of people on twitter that cant read forcing potential damage control. 

Eta: here is the tweet that duckworth retweeted and commented on. 

That’s not bias.  It’s a stupid journalist.