The Media Navigator (2025)
MEDIA, 27 Jan 2025
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service
Jan 2025 – 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.
The Media Navigator (click to enlarge)
The Media Navigator has been developed based on an in-depth analysis of news coverage, commentary, media ownership and financing. There is also a German edition available.
Direct links to media outlets
- Liberal establishment: MSNBC / VOX Media / The Daily Beast / CNN / The Atlantic / The Guardian / The New York Times / ABC News / Wikipedia
- Liberal intermediate: The Young Turks / Mother Jones / Jacobin / The Intercept / Truthdig / Democracy Now! / The Nation / The Real News Network / Novara Media
- Liberal independent: WSWS / G/E Report / The Grayzone / Counterpunch / Z Magazine / MintPress News / CovertAction Magazine / Declassified UK / offGuardian
- Center establishment: The Washington Post / CBS News / Politico / BBC News / The Financial Times / The Hill / TIME Magazine / The Economist / USA Today
- Center independent: Moon of Alabama / Global Research / Corbett Report / The Cradle / Last Am. Vagabond / Unlimited Hangout / 21st Century Wire / Voltaire Network / Consortium News
- Conservative establishment: Wall Street Journal / Telegraph (UK) / Daily Mail / New York Post / Washington Times / Spectator / Fox News / National Review / Washington Examiner
- Conservative intermediate: Daily Caller / American Conservative / UnHerd / Daily Wire / Epoch Times / Revolver News / Rebel News / Breitbart News / Headline USA
- Conservative independent: UK Column / SOTT / Anti War / Zero Hedge / Exec. Intel. Review / Lew Rockwell / VT Foreign Policy / The Unz Review / Information Liberation
Internet search engines
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 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.
1: Google (USA) – 2: Bing (Microsoft) – 3: Brave (USA) – 4: Mojeek (UK) – 5: Yandex (Russia) – 6: Petal (Huawei/China) – 7: eTools (Swiss meta search engine). More: The Search Engine Map.
Video Platforms
Well-known video platforms include YouTube (Google/USA), Rumble (USA), Odysee (USA), BitChute (UK), Dailymotion (France), Vimeo (USA), and the Internet Archive (USA). To access the full range of video sources, platforms other than YouTube have to be used.
MIT Project: Improve the News
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 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 that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.
See also
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