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Following my steady diet of cable news this week, I have never been more convinced that networks + platforms need to be better about educating people about the difference b/t news + opinion.
29% of Americans don't know the diff between reporting + commentary! (source: @AmPress)
29% of Americans don't know the diff between reporting + commentary! (source: @AmPress)
Also, people tend to talk about bias as right vs. left, but there is another dimension of bias toward commentary vs. actual reporting. See Y-axis below.
Newspapers have changed little on the Y-axis since 2000. TV networks are skewing more subjective. Social media algorithms obviously take personalization to the next level. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/u-s-journalism-really-has-become-more-subjective-and-personal-at-least-some-of-it/
Anyway, we should probably do something about this? To start, teach media + digital literacy in schools. And then add better labels for TV and social. Seems like a non-partisan issue IMO. https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/441076-cable-news-punditry-should-come-with-warning-labels
Which orgs are doing the best work here? @NewsLitProject? @ASP? Who else? I want to help!
