For once, Twitter agreed on something: It didn’t like this media-bias chart.
Released twice a year, the most recent chart—a scatterplot of US media outlets organized, according to media ratings company Ad Fontes, by how partisan, accurate, and biased their coverage is—was recently nitpicked by journalists and commentators for attempting to, well, categorize the news, which can be like trying to compare apples to conspiracy-crazed oranges.
Case in point: Though shown as having less bias—i.e., being more credible—news organizations like The New York Times are thrown in with sites such as...…For once, Twitter agreed on something: It didn’t like this media-bias chart.
Released twice a year, the most recent chart—a scatterplot of US media outlets organized, according to media ratings company Ad Fontes, by how partisan, accurate, and biased their coverage is—was recently nitpicked by journalists and commentators for attempting to, well, categorize the news, which can be like trying to compare apples to conspiracy-crazed oranges.
Case in point: Though shown as having less bias—i.e., being more credible—news organizations like The New York Times are thrown in with sites such as...WW…