Comment by andrewxdiamond

2 years ago

Isn’t coming to a news story from these specific political viewpoints already a whole lot of bias?

I don’t think we can boil down most things into three separate POV. Not everything needs to be looked at through a political party’s perspective

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vippy  2 years ago

Came to say this. The point seems not to be give an "all sides showing" but specifically to remove language that's designed to trigger our subcortical response systems.

  • haldujai  2 years ago

    Is that even possible? Take the specific language apart the choice of which stories to report on is already/can be highly biased.

    Not sure a sanitized Fox News or NYT is “bias free” and is probably more dangerous than approaching the original articles knowing what their bias is.

    With that said the product being demo-ed here is about sensationalism not bias per se as in this discussion.

haldujai  2 years ago

They actually use a 5-dimension political spectrum. Left-right is not specific to any political party, dates back 200+ years and is extensively used in academic and nonacademic literature.

What other system would you recommend for evaluating political bias in news?