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Mainstream media bias

The debate over whether the mainstream media is biased, with critics on the right calling it liberal and agenda-driven, while media analysts say the charge is used to delegitimize reporting.

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Jan 14, 2026
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How do AllSides and Ad Fontes rate major U.S. news outlets and what methodologies do they use?

AllSides and Ad Fontes both map political leanings of U.S. news outlets, but they use distinct methods and answer different questions: AllSides focuses on political direction of primarily online writt...

Jan 18, 2026
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Can All Sides be used as a fact-checking tool for news articles?

AllSides is a valuable tool for contextualizing and cross-checking the political slant of fact-checkers and news outlets, offering bias ratings, aggregated fact-check feeds, and a Fact Check Bias Char...

Jan 21, 2026

Which US media outlets are rated as left-leaning by bias trackers?

Major media‑bias trackers such as AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and newer aggregators like Biasly routinely place a set of mainstream U.S. outlets on the left/lean‑left part of their spectrum; examples co...

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