Today we’re releasing the March edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart®, which includes 46 podcasts rated by our team for bias and reliability. As always, sources in the green box of the chart have been found by our team to consistently provide minimally biased, fact-based information. 

With every chart release, we hear from fans and critics who disagree with where some sources fall on the chart. On this edition, you might notice the Fox News Rundown podcast in the green box and, if you’re on the left politically, think, “No way! Fox News is right-wing and tells lies! It should be way down and on the right!” 

If you’re on the right politically, you’ll see the Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order podcast and might think, “No way! Rachel Maddow is a left-wing host from MS NOW, and everybody knows her stuff should be way down and on the left!”

I had a conversation similar to this last week, so let me remind us all again that not all Fox News content is the same. Not all MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) content, or Rachel Maddow content, in particular, is the same. 

Fox News Rundown publishes 20- to 30-minute episodes that report on two or three top stories of the day and then end with a commentary segment. Our analysts have rated randomly selected episodes from the podcast and have found it to be minimally biased and reliable. You can read more about how Fox News podcasts compare with the Fox News website and Fox News TV shows here.

Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order is a limited podcast published last year that looks at the history of the U.S. detaining Japanese-Americans at the start of World War II. Maddow has published several of these narrative-form, historical podcasts, which are much different than her weekly TV show that airs Mondays on MS NOW. In the chart below, you can see how her TV show falls within the opinion section of the Media Bias Chart®, according to our analysis, while her four historical podcasts have been rated by our team to be more reliable and less biased overall.

So as we become more educated news consumers, let’s try to stop ourselves from knee-jerk reactions like “Fox News is bad!” and “Rachel Maddow sucks!,” depending on which side of the political spectrum we fall. These kinds of generalizations are often false, and we should give fair consideration to the content of shows like these rather than rejecting them because of pre-conceived assumptions.

In addition to Fox News Rundown and Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order, eight podcasts fall within the green box on the March Media Bias Chart®: 

• CANADALAND
• FT News Briefing
• Mediaite’s Press Club
• NPR News Now
• Start Here
• The Dispatch Podcast
• The President’s Daily Brief with Mike Baker
• WSJ: Tech News Briefing

More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on future charts.

Seven podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (two of these fall within the green box):

• FT News Briefing (in the green box)
• Mediaite’s Press Club (in the green box)
• The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
• The Graham Allen Show
• The Mona Charen Show
• This is Gavin Newsom
• You’re Wrong w/ Mollie Hemingway & David Harsanyi

Our team started rating podcasts in 2023, and since then we’ve rated more than 3,650 episodes of 880 podcasts. We choose only a few dozen podcasts to include on each month’s static Media Bias Chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. A list of the 46 sources on this chart can be found here.

In addition, in order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we’ve magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources. 

If you’re looking for information about a podcast that’s not on the March chart, you can search for it on our free mobile app 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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