{"id":285642,"date":"2025-01-27T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=285642"},"modified":"2025-01-21T05:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T05:10:43","slug":"the-media-navigator-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/the-media-navigator-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Navigator (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 2025 –<\/em> The Media Navigator classifies 72 leading media outlets based on their political stance and their establishment bias. In many cases, the latter is more significant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Media Navigator (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Media Navigator has been developed based on an in-depth analysis of news coverage, commentary, media ownership and financing. There is also a\u00a0German edition<\/a> available.<\/p>\n

Direct links to media outlets<\/h2>\n
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  1. Liberal establishment: <\/strong>MSNBC<\/a> \/ VOX Media<\/a> \/ The Daily Beast<\/a> \/ CNN<\/a> \/ The Atlantic<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/a> \/ The New York Times<\/a> \/\u00a0ABC News<\/a> \/ Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Liberal intermediate<\/strong>: The Young Turks<\/a> \/\u00a0Mother Jones<\/a> \/\u00a0Jacobin<\/a> \/ The Intercept<\/a> \/ Truthdig <\/a>\/ Democracy Now!<\/a> \/ The Nation<\/a> \/ The Real News Network<\/a> \/ Novara Media<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Liberal independent<\/strong>: WSWS<\/a> \/ G\/E Report<\/a> \/ The Grayzone<\/a> \/ Counterpunch<\/a> \/ Z Magazine<\/a>\u00a0\/ MintPress News<\/a> \/ CovertAction Magazine<\/a> \/ Declassified UK<\/a> \/ offGuardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Center establishment<\/strong>:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/a> \/\u00a0CBS News<\/a> \/ Politico<\/a> \/ BBC News<\/a> \/ The Financial Times<\/a> \/ The Hill<\/a> \/ TIME Magazine<\/a> \/ The Economist<\/a> \/ USA Today<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Center independent<\/strong>: Moon of Alabama<\/a> \/\u00a0Global Research<\/a> \/ Corbett Report<\/a> \/ The Cradle<\/a> \/ Last Am. Vagabond<\/a> \/\u00a0Unlimited Hangout<\/a> \/ 21st Century Wire<\/a> \/\u00a0Voltaire Network<\/a> \/\u00a0 Consortium News<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Conservative establishment<\/strong>: Wall Street Journal<\/a> \/ Telegraph (UK)<\/a> \/ Daily Mail<\/a> \/ New York Post<\/a> \/ Washington Times<\/a> \/ Spectator <\/a>\/ Fox News<\/a> \/ National Review<\/a> \/ Washington Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Conservative intermediate<\/strong>: Daily Caller<\/a> \/ American Conservative<\/a> \/\u00a0UnHerd<\/a> \/ Daily Wire<\/a> \/ Epoch Times<\/a> \/ Revolver News<\/a> \/ Rebel News<\/a> \/ Breitbart News<\/a> \/ Headline USA<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Conservative independent<\/strong>: UK Column<\/a> \/\u00a0SOTT<\/a> \/ Anti War<\/a> \/ Zero Hedge<\/a> \/ Exec. Intel. Review<\/a> \/\u00a0Lew Rockwell<\/a> \/ VT Foreign Policy<\/a> \/ The Unz Review<\/a> \/ Information Liberation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Internet search engines<\/h2>\n

    The following internet search engines use their own search index. On many controversial topics, these search engines provide very different suggestions and results. Most other search engines rely on<\/a> results provided by Microsoft Bing (e.g. DuckDuckGo and Qwant) or Google (e.g. Startpage). To access the full range of media sources, a search engine other than Google has to be used.<\/p>\n

    1<\/strong>: Google<\/a> (USA) \u2013 2<\/strong>: Bing<\/a> (Microsoft) \u2013 3<\/strong>: Brave<\/a> (USA) \u2013 4<\/strong>: Mojeek<\/a> (UK) \u2013 5<\/strong>: Yandex<\/a> (Russia) \u2013 6<\/strong>: Petal<\/a> (Huawei\/China) \u2013 7<\/strong>: eTools<\/a> (Swiss meta search engine). More<\/strong>: The Search Engine Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Video Platforms<\/h2>\n

    Well-known video platforms include YouTube<\/a> (Google\/USA), Rumble<\/a> (USA), Odysee<\/a> (USA), BitChute<\/a> (UK), Dailymotion<\/a> (France), Vimeo<\/a> (USA), and the Internet Archive<\/a> (USA). To access the full range of video sources, platforms other than YouTube have to be used.<\/p>\n

    MIT Project: Improve the News<\/h2>\n

    Based in part on the SPR Media Navigator, an MIT research group led by professor Max Tegmark has developed an online app called Improve the News<\/a> that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the political bias and the establishment bias of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm confirmed<\/a> that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.<\/p>\n

    See also<\/h2>\n