Our analyst team has watched and analyzed more than 4,400 pieces of content to create the February edition of the Media Bias Chart® for TV/video. This includes TV show episodes, YouTube and Rumble videos, and documentaries.
The newest documentaries, added this month, are 2000 Mules and All In: The Fight for Democracy. You’ll find All In near the center left portion of the chart, as it was found to be analysis with a hyper-partisan left bias.
2000 Mules, which has reportedly been viewed by more than 1 million people, is on the bottom right portion of the chart, as our analysts found it to contain inaccurate information and have a hyper-partisan right bias. The film, which alleges voter fraud during the 2020 election, was in the news again somewhat recently when the producer and writer, activist Dinesh D’Souza, admitted that some of the claims in the film were false after a lawsuit was filed by one of the people depicted in the film.
You can also find two other documentaries we’ve analyzed on this month’s chart: HBO’s Stopping the Steal (top left) and Am I Racist? (center right). We’ve now rated a total of 11 documentaries about current events and politics. Read about how these ratings are different than other TV/video content on the chart here.
The Media Bias Chart® is divided into different colored sections: sources in the green box (top middle) of the chart are recommended by our team to provide minimally biased and reliable, fact-based information. You’ll find 14 sources within the green “recommended” box on the February edition of the TV/Video Media Bias Chart®, including three that are included on the chart for the first time:
- C-SPAN Live Stream
- CBC: The Fifth Estate
- CBS: CBS News Mornings
- CNN: CNN News Central (7am-10am ET)
- CNN: Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju
- EWTN: EWTN News In Depth
- Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream
- Merit Street Media: Morning on Merit Street
- NBC News NOW: Stay Tuned Now with Gadi Schwartz – new!
- NewsNation: NewsNation Now Weekend with Anna Kooiman – new!
- NewsNation: NewsNation Now With Nichole Berlie
- PBS: Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
- PBS: Washington Week With The Atlantic
- WION (YouTube) – new!
The 51 sources on the February chart are only a sample of the more than 700 TV/video sources that our team has rated. It’s impossible to show hundreds of logos in one image — they overlap each other, and the result is a completely unreadable chart. For that reason, we choose a sample to feature each month. More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.
A list of the 51 sources included on the February chart is on the 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:
- 2000 Mules
- All In: The Fight for Democracy
- NBC News NOW: Stay Tuned Now with Gadi Schwartz
- NewsNation: NewsNation Now Weekend with Anna Kooiman
- Rising Up With Sonali
- WION (YouTube)
Don’t see your favorite show on this chart? That doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! You can look up ratings on all sources we’ve analyzed and create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.
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When you add in our web/print and podcast/audio ratings, our analysts have fully rated more than 4,080 sources, with commercial data on over 11,350 sources. Keep up on all of our work by joining our email list!
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.