How Do You Perceive Political Bias In The Media

[Rationalist]

I tend to check any news source against some or all of the following sites to get an estimate of their bias:

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings#ratings

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/search/#gsc.tab=0

and specific news stories on sites like

https://www.factcheck.org/

https://www.truthorfiction.com/

When I see comments on here, they often link to sites which those evaluation sites regard as highly untrustworthy.

Those sites regard the Daily Mail, for example, as biassed right ( https://www.allsides.com/news-source/daily-mail )
and right-wing and questionable authenticity ( https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/ )

People can do their own searches for Breitbart, Guido Fawkes, Infowars and so on, all of which are regularly quoted on this site.
They all come out as right-wing (some extreme) and many as questionable.

Is this because people are far-right, or because they don't know how to check facts, or is it that they will believe anything, if it reinforces their prejudices? Or is it that I sit in a bubble of some kind that means I do not see things as these websites protray them

What do you think?

[Mozz71]

//But I'll be straight. I think the Mail is heavily biassed. Maybe not as much as Breitbart or Infowars.//

That's the point I meant. I don't believe a word I read in the Mail, but I would take info from them before checking other sources to confirm. Fox News or Breitbart,I wouldn't even bother clicking a link if I saw either involved.

[Spicerack]

You, sir, are a comedy genius.
I prostrate myself before you.

[1ozzy]

Show some decorum and wait your turn Spicerack

[waterboatman]

I don't take a lot of notice.

[cassa333]

Fox News doesn’t tow the liberal line. That’s why it’s not classed as reliable news by the left.

Now if you look at CNN who are so open about their bias it’s a wonder they get called a news outlet.

Again it’s a matter of your political leanings on which outlet you believe most.

I don’t actually read the Daily Mail but it gets a good bashing on here. But the little I have read on their does seem to be true just WAAAaayyy over hyped and on the right side of the political spectrum. Again it’s just a matter of getting to the truth rather than the clickbait headlines sometimes.

[ichkeria]

I don’t use a fact checker for actual “news”
If the BBC or anyone else tells me there’s been a plane crash then I believe them.
Generally even political outlets like Breitbart don’t actually make stuff up; but they select particular stories and spin them to suit their agenda. And often people read no further than a headline, which CAN be misleading.
We are all as readers biased, and I am sure we do prefer to reside in our own echo chamber; what’s worrying is when people get cajoled or alarmed into a particular point of view by unsolicited news media.

[lindapalmara]

Well the BBC (Brussels Broadcasting Corporation) and a list of papers is:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom