Where’s your favorite information source stand on the political scale?
I’ve updated the following subjective chart based on information compiled from various sources and your feedback. Some sources have shifted left or right, others have been added including: ESPN, McClatchy, the Federalist, Conservative Review, Washington Monthly, Twitchy, Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse.
Please note that outlets on left and right sometimes publish material that’s on the opposite side of the political spectrum, or that has no political leaning at all. The placement is based on perceived overall tone and audience. Position on the chart doesn’t necessarily imply credibility or lack thereof. Sources on far right and far left have, in many instances, produced excellent, factually correct information at times.
I have loosely placed more traditional information sources in the top half of the chart working down toward aggregators, fact-checkers, opinion sites and less news-related sources. (This posed some position challenges since most of traditional information sources are left-leaning.) I did not attempt to place individual programs or broadcasts.
Compiling such a chart is obviously difficult for many reasons, some of them having to do with space. The spacing should be considered relative and not an indicator of absolute position. A number of the information sources technically belong on top of one another.
You have contributed terrific ideas, such as sizing boxes based on audience, and dividing into quadrants. This is a work in progress. Thanks for your input!
Think a source should be moved? Want one added? Leave a comment!
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Alternate charts and opinions:
https://www.infowars.com/alternate-reality-viral-propaganda-chart-demonizes-independent-media/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com
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I would add RT to the far left and Independent Journal Review to the middle right.
I would like to see an * on each Soros funded purely Fascist Socialist Propaganda outlet.
Overall, I would say it looks fairly accurate. OAN in my opinion is not that far right. It sure solidifies the fact it’s nearly impossible to get “hard” news anymore.
What? No Full Measure????
Huge circulation in New England: Boston Globe-left and Boston Herald- right.
Fox News is still on the right- despite Shepard Smith.
Mother Jones should be far left.
Where is refinery29? They are so bias, worse than people rag mag.
The Chicago Tribune should be directly under the LA Times. To the right of them should be the Chicago Suntimes.
ZeroHedge should be under the DailyMail at worst.
Newsweek should be under Vanity Fair.
AP and BBC News should swap positions.
WSJ should be placed on the line just like Reason.
Economist is a left wing rag. Barely readable any longer.
You should add the Canadian publications although your layout probably doesn’t reach far enough left. You don’t even know what is the truth any longer in Canada. Trump could cure cancer and the Globe & Mails first 5 stories would be negative trump. #fakenews is rampant in Canada
Ooops .. I meant *Sharyl .. was writing email to Cheryl
Cheryl this is a good project & I know just how to fix this chart to make it accurate – On the left just put the label “fake news”, & on top of CNN put the label “very fake news” .. JK :) .. Hey BTW where is fox business? Good team, good shows .. For the next iteration of this chart you should have total viewership/print distribution totals on each side. This way you can demonstrate or show just how unbalanced the overall biased coverage is .. That would show the true disadvantage of free media the left receives. List their contributions and party affiliations. Then the following iteration you can add in all the day time & night time talk shows to show the additional free media bias for the left. Then you can next add in the Hollywood hypocrites & music industry bias to show the real up hill battle conservatives have to get their voices out .. Lastly list all the colleges and their liberal vs. conservative leanings/teachings – this is really where the radical alt left liberal indoctrination starts.
No TheResurgent? No Conservative Review? I would argue the Washington Examiner also qualifies for right of center info.
Anyone who says the National Review is not conservative is a Trump Kool-Aid drinker.
I agree with “Jon D”…its as close to how I think than anything I’ve seen.
This chart might be even more illuminating if the size of the box for each media outlet were proportional to its circulation or other measure audience. My guess is that it would tilt a bit more to the left on a weighted basis.
MSNBC fired all the Liberals and has spent the past few years hiring Centrists and Right Wingers.
MSNBC along with CNN are Center at best.
This chart is mostly accurate. The changes I’d make are: Huff Post should be literally sliding off the left edge. Snopes, Fact Check, Politifact and Pew Research should be under Politico. Christian Science Monitor should be almost dead center. WSJ, Wash Times and NY Post should touch the center line.
Reality check. The majority of the media in the U.S. is controlled by the Left. It was designed that way many, many years ago. My only relative comment to this chart is this. If someone is watching ANY media outlet in order to find or determine their political stance. They’re in trouble and the Left is winning. My concerns as they relate to government. #1 Will you Sharyl receive justice for what the corrupt government did to you? #2 Will myself and millions of others receive any justice in what the corrupt government has done to us over the last eight years?
Why are the media organizations stacked like this? Is there any reason behind having something like Stars and Stripes at the bottom next to Infowars and Variety? It seems difficult to compare good military reporting with Internet garbage and celebrity coverage. Might be confusing for somebody who is not familiar with all the sources. I’m guessing it has to do with name recognition by the public?
I would put the Wall Street Journal a bit closer to center.
I’d like to see the size of each source reflect its reach or circulation number. Hence, for example, HotAir and American Thinkre would each be tiny compared with the New York Times or the WaPo. It would give viewer a better sense of scale between right-leaning sources and those on the left.
The Federalist should be mentioned as should aggregator sites Memeorandum (centre-left) and RealClearPolitics (centre-right).