Indivisible CLT Media Bias Project- Update
By Marshal Auron and Pat Rosa
Indivisible Charlotte’s project to help our members better assess media bias was introduced in a previous In the Know article Media Bias: Fact or Fiction? Here’s an update on our progress related to assessing media bias for North Carolina news.
Please refer to last month’s update Media Bias: How Media Savvy Are You? on distinguishing between facts and opinions and for information related to assessing media bias for National and International news sources.
Media Bias Tools
Unlike National and International sources, we were not able to use existing online media bias tools for assessing bias. We only used the AI based search tool, which draws information and perspectives from various sources across the internet. Each source’s rating has a brief description of the news source. Please remember that an AI based tool is not perfect and that it is important to do your own “gut check” based on the Fact vs Opinion Tools provided in last month’s update, rather than taking our (or the tool’s) word for it.
If there is a particular news source that you use and would like us to help you analyze, please let us know.
