December Media Bias Chart Features 52 TV/Video Programs
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12/20/2024
Here it is — the final Media Bias Chart® release of 2024, our December TV/video chart. It features 52 of the 700 TV/video programs our team has fully rated. 700! A year ago, we had rated 440 programs, so we’ve come a long way this year (not to mention the 2,600 websites and 766 podcasts we’ve now analyzed). Wow!
As always, the December TV/video chart has a mix of network and cable TV shows, YouTube and Rumble shows, and documentaries. The newest documentary, added this month, is The Great White Hoax. You’ll see it in the center left portion of the chart.
You can also find two other documentaries we’ve recently analyzed: HBO’s Stopping the Steal (top left) and Am I Racist? (center right). Read more about why we started rating documentaries about current events and politics, and how these ratings are different than other TV/video content on the chart, in last month’s article here.
It’s also a good time to remind you that not all content on cable TV networks is the same. You’ll see overall ratings for the CNN, Fox News and MSNBC news channels on the chart. Their placement is determined by a weighted average of all program ratings (for example, the scores of all CNN shows we’ve rated are averaged to determine where the CNN TV Network falls on the chart).
You’ll also find individual shows from CNN, Fox News and MSNBC on the chart, and if you look closely, you’ll find that they fall in different categories of bias and reliability. For example, the Fox News shows Outnumbered (lower right) and Special Report w/Bret Baier (top center) are very different, according to our analysis.
The point is this: Not all content on Fox News, MSNBC or CNN is the same. (You can read more about that here.) So even if you have a favorite cable TV news network, you can be selective about which shows to watch, if you wish, based on our recommendations.
As always, it’s impossible to show hundreds of logos in one image — they overlap each other and the result is a completely unreadable chart. That’s why we choose a sample to feature each month. A list of the 52 sources included on the December TV/video chart is on our website. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.
Six items appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time:
- CBS: CBS News Mornings
- CNN: Laura Coates Live
- Fox News: America Reports With John Roberts & Sandra Smith
- OAN: Nights With Chris Boyle
- The Great White Hoax
- TIMES NOW (YouTube)
Don’t see your favorite show on this chart? That doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! If you want to check our ratings on more TV/video sources, you can access a selection of them for free on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® on our website. Or, you can search all sources we’ve rated on the free Media Bias Chart app, available for iPhone and Android. Daily search limits apply.
When you add in our web/print and podcast/audio ratings, our analysts have fully rated about 4,000 sources, with commercial data on over 11,100 sources. Become a subscriber to have additional access to our data!
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Beth Heldebrandt is a Media Research Specialist at Ad Fontes Media. She has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of journalism and public relations, and was an adjunct instructor of journalism for 17 years at Eastern Illinois University. Beth has a B.A. in journalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and an M.A. in English from Eastern Illinois University. She’s a mom and grandma, and enjoys traveling, puzzles and reading.
