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Cable news outlets have switched political colors over time. Red used to mean Democrat, and blue used to mean Republican.

It’s easy to forget, but the stories of migrants, such as the thousands of Haitians who have captured media attention this week, do not begin with their arrival at the southern border. By ignoring the ongoing stories of migrants outside of the U.S., news outlets create a media environment where they and their readers can fit vulnerable people into political narratives.

The relentless commitment of mainstream fact-checkers to keeping tabs on the White House is no more.

Click here for Part 1 of this series: The Press in Colonial America and Creation of the 1st Amendment , Part 2: The 1800s , and Part 3: the 1900s-1950s . Today, we hold journalists and media outlets accountable to a journalistic code of ethics and a set of standards , which include truth...

Click here for Part 1 of this Perspectives series: The Press in Colonial America and Creation of the 1st Amendment . Today, we hold journalists and media outlets accountable to journalistic codes of ethics and a set of standards, which include truth, transparency, and objectivity. When...

From the Center This viewpoint is from a writer rated Center. Last Wednesday, Facebook announced that it would start testing reduced quantities of political content in its News Feed. Testing has already begun in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia, and it will begin in the United States in the...

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” -Mark Twain On Tuesday, Democrats in Congress reintroduced a bill to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. Slanted coverage soon followed. View this post on Instagram A post shared by AllSides (@...

Our modern world of media and advertising is shaped by many forces. The strongest and most important of them is attention . Take a minute to think about all the things that you read or clicked on today. What made you choose them out of a thousand others? The term ' attention economy '...

The world of cable TV news used to be such a simple place. Fox was conservative, MSNBC was liberal and CNN was in the middle. But that was before Donald Trump became president, and those easy classifications have become much more complicated. During the 2016 presidential campaign, CNN...