MSM has a well-known…Far-Leftist Bias
MSM has a well-known…Far-Leftist Bias
More evidence from the best Germany of all times, if you'd needed it.
Courtesy of Kristina Schröder (where I saw the below gfx over at Twitter)
Background: recently, the U of Mainz, Germany, rated 47 legacy media outlets according to their ideological convictions (orig. Haltung), and here’s the result:
Looks quite o.k.-ish, eh? Here’s what Ms. Schröder is highlighting—if the labels and captions are all in the same quadrant where they belong, it looks like this (courtesy of politplatschquatsch). See if you can spot the difference:
Here’s Ms. Schröder’s commentary (machine translation by Google):
Recently there was a study by the University of Mainz about the ideological classification of 47 German media. “It’s quite balanced,” said many people here. This is what the graphic looks like if only the label lines are set differently. Completely balanced? Source: Blog politplatschquatsch
Remember, the ‘liberal bias’ of legacy media is gone—it’s now leftish to far-left-radical, with very few exceptions.
I'm a big fan of quadrant diagrams, but they should not be misused to cram three dimensions into a two-dimensional image. Why liberal AND progressive on one axis, and what is the difference in the mind of the authors? And once they had a word pair for the "good" side, they needed another for the "bad" side, and sneaked in "authoritarian". Guess where the lockdown and compulsory vaccination maniacs are located in the image...
In Sweden, 85% of state journalists vote Socialist Democrat, Communist, or Green/Feminist.
And that's according to how we measure such things here - our "rightwing" parties are left of the Socialist Democrat parties of the 1980s.