Media Ratings Firm Favors Left Leaning Outlets

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By    |   Monday, 25 September 2023 07:00 AM EDT ET

A deep dive into a prominent media ratings firm's purportedly impartial and nonpartisan rankings of media bias and reliability found the chart seemingly favors left-leaning outlets while punishing others.

Media Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting censorship of news media, recently investigated the August edition of Ad Fontes Media's Media Bias Chart and found that the firm's supposedly unbiased system appears to be rife with bias against conservatives.

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A deep dive into a prominent media ratings firm's purportedly impartial and nonpartisan rankings of media bias and reliability found the chart seemingly favors left-leaning outlets while punishing others.
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