Media Bias Alert: Transgender Day of Visibility Falls on Easter Sunday

On March 29, President Biden issued a “Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility,” which has fallen on March 31 every year since 2009 and Biden has recognized since 2021. Conservative news outlets and commentators tended to put a negative spin on the news, displaying sensationalism, opinion stated as fact, story choice bias, and bias by omission.
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NYT Opinion Says the ‘Deep State’ is ‘Awesome,’ Drawing Media Criticism

The New York Times published a video in its Opinion section that described the American “deep state” as “kind of awesome.” Several media outlets and pundits criticized the Times for its framing of what the “deep state” actually is, and the publication’s track record of writing about it in the past.
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Our Google News Bias Analysis Blew Up on X, Here’s How The Media Reacted

Last week, AllSides published its 2023 Google News bias analysis which found the the aggregator skews significantly in favor of sources on the left, particularly those with a Lean Left rating. The study was widely viewed on X, and written about by several media outlets, mostly from the right.
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Media Bias Alert: New Report Says Obama CIA Illegally Spied on Trump

A new report from independent journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi claims the CIA asked foreign allies to illegally spy on former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. Despite being covered by many sources from the Right, no sources from the Center or Left picked up the report, displaying bias by omission.
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Media Bias Alert: Scant Coverage on NewsNation’s Democrat Panel, Previous Slant Against Candidates

NewsNation hosted an on-air panel with the 2024 Democratic candidates running against President Biden, but very few media outlets across the spectrum acknowledged it.
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Media Bias Alert: Media Across Spectrum Show Negativity Bias Toward U.S. Test Scores

Statistics released this week showed students across the developed world struggling with math, including American students, who achieved an all-time low average score. Many mainstream media outlets across the spectrum covered the story, but showed negativity bias in the framing of how U.S. students performed.
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Media Bias Alert: Center and Left Media Outlets Ignore GOP Report on Federal Government’s 2020 ‘Censorship’ Efforts

This week, center and left-rated media outlets showed story choice bias by omission in their lack of coverage on a GOP-led Congressional committee report that claims government agencies, think tanks, Big Tech companies, and academics worked together to suppress views on social media — mostly those coming from conservatives — during COVID and before the 2020 election.
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Media Bias Alert: Left Sees a Judge Without Ethics, Right Sees Another Attack on a Conservative Court

In April 2023, reports emerged that Thomas had received gifts from GOP donor Harlan Crow and did not disclose some of them. These revelations have led to controversy regarding whether Thomas has committed ethical violations and what the ramifications should be.
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