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This Weeks News Coverage Contrast Picks: Inauguration Speech and Benghazi

Bias / January 24th, 2013 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

With "hot political potato" stories like President Obama's inauguration speech and Hillary Clinton’s testimony at the Benghazi hearings, the contrast in coverage was even more pronounced than usual this week. Here are our top contrast picks for these two big stories: Benghazi stories From...

News, Media Bias

You're Right: That Person's Opinion is Not Rational

Bias / January 11th, 2013 / By Liz Lehman Teal

AllSides tends to attract some of the most rational thinkers around: people who want to see all sides of something before drawing a conclusion about it. Does that sound like you? If so, you might get pretty annoyed at people who take a strong view that seems ill-informed. The next time...

Media Bias, Polarization

Media Watchdog Awards from 2012

Bias / December 27th, 2012 / By AllSides Staff

As 2012 comes to a close, some media watchdogs on the right and left have been announcing awards, but these are not the kinds of awards you want to win. Award from the Right On the right, media watchdog Media Research Center has a whole page of awards. Here's a highlight: MRC's "Never Let...

Media Bias

Media Watchdog Coverage of Fiscal Cliff

News / December 7th, 2012 / By Liz Lehman Teal

We applaud media watchdogs for their investigative journalism and for publishing bias news that goes unmentioned in mainstream news. But who watches the watchdogs? After all, it’s only natural that watchdogs have their own bias. At AllSides, we say bias is not a problem as long as it’s...

Media Bias, Journalism

How the Internet Trains our Brains to Polarize and Despise

News / November 27th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

The political polarization of Americans is reaching new heights, and the Internet is making it worse. How did we end up so divided and is there anything we can do about it? Polarization has been exacerbated by what I call the “Internet brain”. It goes beyond a mere fad--it's more...

Polarization, Media Bias, AllSides

We're Still Friends

News / November 8th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Had to share this awesome photo. Yes, we can disagree and not only be civil with each other but be friends. It's a core part of AllSides, and beautiful too see on these front lawns.

Polarization

Newspaper endorsements from around the country

News / November 1st, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Looking at the Presidential endorsements of the top 100 newspapers , we see that they generally stuck with their reputation, but there were a few changes and surprises. Update : Since originally writing this blog, 13 more endorsements have been made. I've updated the numbers below, but...

News

Huge Differences in Media Coverage of Terrorist Attack at Benghazi

Bias / October 28th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

It is natural and expected that different news agencies choose different stories to cover and have different perspectives. For this Presidential campaign, a current example is in the coverage of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, and the Obama administration’s response. The general...

Media Bias, Journalism

15 Headlines about the Final Presidential Debate

News / October 23rd, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

In the last presidential debate before the election, “the candidates again contradicted each other, while each offered incorrect or twisted factual claims,” according to FactCheck.org. And, once again, headlines from different sources made each candidate look like a winner or loser,...

News, Media Bias

Announcing new AllSides features: Issues, Candidate Stances, Self-test and More

Announcement / October 23rd, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

In AllSides' quest to help you cut through the ultra-partisan rhetoric and 24-hour news cycle noise, we've got something new for you this week. It just might help you decide who to vote for for president too. New things you can do on AllSides Select an issue you care about... Find out...

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15 Headlines from 2nd Presidential Debate: Fact Checks, Polls, Analysis

News / October 17th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Energy policy, gas prices, women, Libya, taxes, and jobs: these are tricky topics from last night’s presidential debate that continue to be debated by all sides of the media today. In fact, there is even a bit of debate over who won. See what you think. We'll start with news from the Left...

News, Media Bias

15 Headlines from the VP Debate

News / October 12th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

One thing all sides seem to agree on: last night's debate between VP candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan was one of the liveliest we've seen in a while. But from there the agreements in opinion start to break down. We picked three very different opinions on the VP debate that we...

News, Media Bias

Electoral Map Overview: Poll Hysteria and Bias

Bias / October 8th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

There is a constant onslaught of polling data every day from the 24 hours news cycle. It is overwhelming. And ridiculous. Poll results are very different depending on the source . Above is an overview of how the electoral maps look now, showing the AllSides Bias Rating (ABR) by each. Not...

News, Media Bias

15 Headlines from First Debate

Bias / October 3rd, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

It is always fun and revealing to see the different headlines for the same event, especially a big event loaded with politics like the first Presidential debate. I picked prominent headlines on the front pages: From the Left: Huffington Post: " Romney wins the night " or same story with a...

News

Bias Through Omission: Terrorists Behind the Attacks in Libya

Bias / September 30th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

We frequently expose bias just by showing how two different news organizations cover the same story. What is perhaps even more important, particularly when you consider how it impacts public discourse and how well we are informed before Election Day, is when news is not covered at all or...

News, Media Bias, Journalism

Romney Video Story: AllSides News Bias Pick of the Week

Bias / September 20th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Every week we highlight a news story where the coverage showed so much contrast that it revealed bias. This week a video of candidate Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser got a great deal of attention and news sources were flying their bias flags high. Here’s what we noticed... On the...

News, Media Bias

Healthcare Study: Bias Pick of the Week

Bias / September 16th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Bias Pick of the Week: New Healthcare Study . This week we saw a great contrast in coverage of new reports by two major research groups on U.S. health insurance. And we saw the left and the right both leave out key information that the others thought were important. From the Left, the New...

News, Media Bias

How to Turn Media Bias into a Good Thing

Bias / September 14th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Perhaps you’ve noticed the growing tendency of media outlets to present themselves as the Zeus on Mount Olympus you should go to for everything – your “most trusted" source. In the process, some outlets seek to build business by having an editorial viewpoint that guarantees a large, like-...

Media Bias, Polarization

A Tale of Two Men: Bias in Coverage of Clinton and Obama Speeches

Bias / September 8th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

After watching every night of both party conventions, what do I feel? Mostly exhaustion. No wonder we all need someone to sort through all of this chatter for us - there is no way average people with busy lives can spend all of this time listening and evaluating both major parties and...

News, Media Bias

Escaping Information Cocoons

Recommended Reading / September 4th, 2012 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Just read a great article on Bloomberg: How Voters Can Escape From Information Cocoons . That pretty much describes the exact problem we are solving here at AllSides. Check it out.

Polarization

Perspectives Blog

Biden Walks the Line on Israel, Issues Rafah Ultimatum

This Weeks News Coverage Contrast Picks: Inauguration Speech and Benghazi

You're Right: That Person's Opinion is Not Rational

Media Watchdog Awards from 2012

Media Watchdog Coverage of Fiscal Cliff

How the Internet Trains our Brains to Polarize and Despise

We're Still Friends

Newspaper endorsements from around the country

Huge Differences in Media Coverage of Terrorist Attack at Benghazi

15 Headlines about the Final Presidential Debate

Announcing new AllSides features: Issues, Candidate Stances, Self-test and More

15 Headlines from 2nd Presidential Debate: Fact Checks, Polls, Analysis

15 Headlines from the VP Debate

Electoral Map Overview: Poll Hysteria and Bias

15 Headlines from First Debate

Bias Through Omission: Terrorists Behind the Attacks in Libya

Romney Video Story: AllSides News Bias Pick of the Week

Healthcare Study: Bias Pick of the Week

How to Turn Media Bias into a Good Thing

A Tale of Two Men: Bias in Coverage of Clinton and Obama Speeches

Escaping Information Cocoons

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