impressive! so much good journalism exists on substack. wondering what criteria you're using for allowed sources and if you'll expand to different journalists' substacks.
Allowed Sources Major Wire Services (1.0) Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg Top US News (0.9) NYT, WaPo, WSJ, ProPublica
Conservative Media (0.7-0.8) Fox News, National Review, Washington Times, The Dispatch, Washington Examiner, RealClearPolitics, Reason
Progressive Media (0.7-0.8) Mother Jones, The Nation, Democracy Now!, New Republic, Jacobin, Truthout, Slate
International (0.8-0.9) BBC, Guardian, FT, Economist, DW, France24, Al Jazeera
Fact Checkers (0.9) FactCheck.org, PolitiFact
Major Networks (0.8) NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNBC
Digital Media (0.7-0.8) Atlantic, Wired, Axios, USA Today, Time
So does the Digital Media group as a whole - it seems overly reductive, and the sources are too varying in quality/reliability to be given the same weight. And does something like Time really fit in there, considering they've been print media for the vast majority of their existence?
(Love the project overall, though! Thanks for creating and sharing.)
OK, my feedback is that it is a very left leaning list of sources. I use a site, https://www.allsides.com, that does media bias ratings and rates sites from -6 (high left bias) to 6 (high right bias), and outside of the ones you have listed specifically listed as "Conservative Media", every site that I could find was negative, other than the FT which was listed as "Center" with no numerical rating. Yes, even the WSJ, although that was WSJ news rather than opinion, opinion was slightly right.
Here's the list I got, I had to make some choices on what to use, "ABC" for example can refer to different things.
The Nation -5.00
Slate -4.50
Democracy Now! -4.00
Mother Jones -4.00
New Republic -4.00
Jacobin -4.00
The Atlantic -4.00
Guardian -3.50
AP -3.10
AFP -3.10
Wired -2.75
Time Magazine -2.30
TruthOut -2.00
Politifact -2.00
ProPublica -2.00
NPR -2.00
CBS News (Online) -1.50
FactCheck.org -1.60
Washington Post -1.63
NBC News Digital -1.80
New York Times -2.20
Al Jazeera -2.30
Bloomberg -2.40
USA Today -2.00
Axios -1.70
ABC News (Online) -1.42
Economist -1.40
CNBC -0.90
Reuters -0.89
BBC -0.80
WSJ -0.20
FT ? Rated as Center with no #
RealClearPolitics 0.16
Reason 0.28
The Dispatch 2.00
Washington Times 2.00
Washington Examiner 2.30
National Review 2.50
Fox News (digital) 3.88
If you're trying to build a left leaning media bubble, you're doing a pretty good job. I would be curious to see results from the opposite, choose a few examples of "Liberal Media", and populate the rest of the list with sources that were rated as leaning right.
And I'm sure some people will disagree with the allsides bias ratings. There's no way to be completely objective on something like that. They seem pretty believable to me, but I'm not watching the same movie y'all are.