Research Guides: News Literacy: Recognize Bias

Where Do Americans Get Their News?

Mitchell, Amy, Jeffrey Gottfried, Jocelyn Kiley, and Katerina E. Matsa. "Political Polarization & Media Habits." Pew Research Center for Journalism & Media, edited by Amy Mitchell, Pew Research Center, 21 Oct. 2014, www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization-media-habits/.

Resources to Help Evaluate Bias

AllSides News Service
AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.

Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
The database brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, newspaper and magazines articles on social issues.

Organizations That Monitor Media Bias

Factcheck.org
Factcheck is a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Media Research Center
MRC’s sole mission is to expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media. This makes the MRC’s work unique within the conservative movement.
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.