![]() ![]() “When you have bias that’s not acknowledged, but is present, that’s really damaging to trust,” he said. If undisclosed bias threatens to mislead some news consumers, it also pushes others away, he said. When people are influenced by undisclosed political bias in the news they consume, “that’s pretty bad for democratic politics, pretty bad for our country to have people be consistently misinformed and think they’re informed,” Groeling said. Tim Groeling, a communications professor at the University of California Los Angeles, said some consumers take too much of the “news” they encounter as impartial. But those standards are not observed across the board in the “news” content that people consume. Traditional journalism values a focus on news reporting that is fair and impartial, guided by principles like truth, verification and accuracy. Are media bias charts reliable? Why do media bias charts exist? According to CrowdTangle, a social media monitoring platform, the homepages for these two sites and the pages for their charts have been shared tens of thousands of times.īut just because something is widely shared doesn’t mean it’s accurate. That’s why she created a media bias chart.Īs readers hurl claims of hidden bias towards outlets on all parts of the political spectrum, bias charts have emerged as a tool to reveal pernicious partiality.Ĭharts that use transparent methodologies to score political bias - particularly the AllSides chart and another from news literacy company Ad Fontes Media - are increasing in popularity and spreading across the internet. “We can be manipulated into (a biased outlet’s) point of view and not able to evaluate it critically and objectively and understand where it’s coming from,” said Mastrine, marketing director for AllSides, a media literacy company focused on “freeing people from filter bubbles.” But it’s not OK for news organizations to hide those biases, she said. Everyone has a bias: everyday people and journalists. That is, at least, according to Julie Mastrine. Impartial journalism is an impossible ideal. ![]()
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