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What does a “Left” media bias rating mean?
Sources with a Left media bias rating are most likely to show favor for:
- Generous government services (food stamps, social security, Medicare, student-loans, unemployment benefits, healthcare, education, etc.)
- A rejection of social and economic inequality
- A belief in systemic oppression and a need for the government to step in and rectify the wrongs it has committed
- Federal laws to protect consumers and the environment
- Federal laws against discrimination
- Federal laws protecting equal rights
- Tax increases on the wealthy
- Government regulation of corporations
- Keeping abortion legal and accessible
- A belief that some groups of people suffer disproportionately greater amounts in society due to identity - characteristics, including race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
What does a “Lean Left” media bias rating mean?
Sources with a Lean Left rating may moderately show favor for at least some of the following:
- Government services (food stamps, social security, Medicare, student-loans, unemployment benefits, healthcare, education, etc.)
- Federal laws to protect consumers and the environment
- Federal laws protecting equal rights
- Tax increases on the wealthy
- Government regulation of corporations
- Keeping abortion legal and accessible
- A belief in identity politics, i.e., that some groups of people suffer disproportionately greater amounts in society due to identity characteristics, including race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
- A belief in systemic oppression and a need for the government to step in and rectify the wrongs it has committed
- Decreasing military spending and intervention
What does a "Center" media bias rating mean?
Sources with a Center AllSides Media Bias Rating™ either do not show much political bias or display a balance of articles with left and right perspectives.
Sources with a Lean Right rating may moderately show favor for at least some of the following:
- Freedom of speech
- Traditional family values
- Decreasing taxes
- Preserving the rights of gun owners
- Outlawing or restricting abortion
- Reliance on personal responsibility rather than government fiat
- Decreasing federal regulations, giving more power to state laws
- Decreasing government spending and involvement in economic issues
- Preserving the philosophy and rules enshrined in the U.S. Constitution
- Rejection of total equality or equity as an organizing principle of society
What does a Right media bias rating mean?
Sources with a Right media bias rating are simply most likely to show favor for:
- Freedom of speech
- Traditional family values
- Decreasing taxes
- Preserving the rights of gun owners
- Outlawing or restricting abortion
- Reliance on personal responsibility rather than government fiat
- Decreasing federal regulations, giving more power to state laws
- Decreasing government spending and involvement in economic issues
- Preserving the philosophy and rules enshrined in the U.S. Constitution
- Rejection of total equality or equity as an organizing principle of society
