User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Fake news and media bias webliography

Fake news and media bias webliography is a list of resources compiled from Wikipedia articles and talk pages.

Talk:Fake news website

 * Talk:Fake news website

Fake News
When Breitbart news headlines read "As we noted when Republicans called Obama the “Food Stamp President", Factcheck.org reported that "14.7 million people were added to the food-stamp rolls during George W. Bush’s time in office. By comparison, the net gain under Obama now stands at under 11.6 million — and the number leaving the food stamp rolls has accelerated lately."

Media bias
This list will be based on Wikipedia's own entries on each media outlet. """Fake news is nothing new. Its impact has waxed and waned through American history. But there was a golden age of "yellow journalism," back in the 1890s, when fake news helped start a war. Yellow journalism has been defined as any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical manner.""
 * Mother Jones is a politically progressive American magazine reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist and ardent opponent of child labor.
 * Christian Science Monitor
 * Newsweek
 * Politico
 * Public Radio International

- PRI


 * Center for Public Integrity


 * Media Matters for America is a politically progressive media watchdog in the United States that "comprehensively monitor[s], analyze[s], and correct[s] conservative misinformation in the U.S. media". MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock as a counterweight to the conservative Media Research Center. It is known for its aggressive criticism of conservative journalists and media outlets, including its "War on Fox News."


 * The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851. The New York Times has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. According to a 2007 survey by conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports of public perceptions of major media outlets, 40% saw the paper as having a liberal slant, 20% no political slant and 11% believe it has a conservative slant.  In 2004, a University of California, Los Angeles a flawed study by former fellows of a conservative think tank rated the The New York Times as the second-most liberal major newspaper in the study after the Wall Street Journal (85.1). The Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America pointed out potential conflicts of interest with the author's funding, and political scientists, such as Brendan Nyhan, cited flaws in the study's methodology.
 * Voice of America
 * Associated Press
 * Southern Poverty Law Center
 * Reuters
 * USA Today
 * San Francisco Chronicle
 * Vice magazine
 * Rasmussen Reports "Time magazine has described Rasmussen Reports as a "conservative-leaning polling group." The Washington Post called Rasmussen a "polarizing pollster." John Zogby said that Scott Rasmussen has a "conservative constituency." The Center for Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign. The Washington Post reported that the 2004 Bush re-election campaign had used a feature on the Rasmussen Reports website that allowed customers to program their own polls, and that Rasmussen asserted that he had not written any of the questions nor assisted Republicans. Rasmussen has received criticism over the wording in its polls. Asking a polling question with different wording can affect the results of the poll; the commentators in question allege that the questions Rasmussen ask in polls are skewed in order to favor a specific response. For instance, when Rasmussen polled whether Republican voters thought Rush Limbaugh was the leader of their party, the specific question they asked was: "Agree or Disagree: 'Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party—he says jump and they say how high.'"
 * Breitbart Breitbart News Network is a right-wing or far-right      American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart.


 * Washington Post

A selected timeline of related events in reverse chronological order
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 * This article explains why the Groseclose-Milyo 2003 UCLA study is flawed.

September 2003 
 * Political scientist Timothy J. Groseclose of UCLA and economist Jeffrey D. Milyo of the University of Missouri-Columbia claim to demonstrate that America's news content has "a strong liberal bias." Groseclose is a scholar for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is an American libertarian think tank working with policy makers, lobbyists, and government officials to promote free-market approaches to public policy. The Mercatus Center was founded by Rich Fink as the Center for the Study of Market Processes at Rutgers University after the Koch family gave more than $30 million to George Mason University. Members of the Board of Directors include Richard Fink, Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, Brian Hooks, President of the Charles Koch Foundation and Charles G. Koch, co-owner, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries. is a member of the Mercatus Center's Board of Directors and the Koch brothers have During the George W. Bush administration's campaign to reduce government regulation, the Wall Street Journal reported, "14 of the 23 rules the White House chose for its "hit list" to eliminate or modify were Mercatus entries."

Respected scholarly journals of communication and media studies
Respected scholarly journals of communication and media studies in which media bias is a relatively frequent topic of inquiry. Journal ranking

Impact factor reflects the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journalsThe highly-valued Science Citation Index (SCI) rankings are generated by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).


 * Journal of Communication | impact factor in 2014 = 3.16
 * Communication Research
 * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Impact factor in 2015 = 1.159
 * Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Impact factor in 2014 = 1.352
 * Political Communication Impact factor in 20 =

Articles about fake news

 * Operation Mockingbird

Comedic satire of the news

 * The Onion is not a fake news website. They do not pretend to be real news.
 * The People's Cube

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 * WP:BROADCONCEPT


 * WP:UNDUE weight


 * WP:Identifying reliable sources


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 * WP:LEAD


 * WP:NPV neutral


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A selection of potential references
"""Fake news is nothing new. Its impact has waxed and waned through American history. But there was a golden age of "yellow journalism," back in the 1890s, when fake news helped start a war. Yellow journalism has been defined as any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical manner.""
 * Online fake news phenomenon and yellow journalism:

- PRI ""During the Gilded Age, yellow journalism flourished, using fake interviews, false experts, and bogus stories to spark sympathy and rage as desired.""

- Politico



"""Suddenly, we are back in the same situation the yellow press faced two centuries ago.""

- SCMP

"""There's a grand tradition of fabricated news in America media, Miller and others point out, dating to the murky origin of the Spanish-American War in 1898, and the roles William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, and Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World played in stoking conflict to help them sell papers at the dawn of the yellow journalism era. Fake news has always been popular, whether it be The National Enquirer, Weekly World News, Globe," Miller says. "And innovation has made it possible to spread that news faster and deeper." A radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, Orson Welles' Halloween Eve hoax in 1938 about a Martian invasion on Earth, created a nationwide panic. It was also a hit.""

- USA Today