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News Spectrum Chart

 

"News Spectrum Chart" by Vanessa Otero

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News Bias Resources

  • AllSides
    "Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant."

     
  • Media Bias/Fact Check
    Comprehensive media bias resource. There are currently 2000+ media sources listed in the database and growing every day. 
  • FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
    A national media watch group, offers "well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints."

     
  • What is Confirmation Bias?


"Whenever people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government."
Thomas Jefferson, quoted in The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations