Dr. Sally Raskoff

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LAVC's Spring semester starts on Monday! My Stat 101 and Soc 31 classes have some room if you'd like to learn some stuff this semester... Join us!

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Related to the previous post a minute ago, Adfontes' media bias chart that's interactive!

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New media bias chart for podcasts!

Our First Simple Media Bias Chart for Podcasts | Ad Fontes Media Our first Simple Media Bias Chart for podcasts. Ad Fontes Media releases curated chart with larger source logos

It's good to know about bias...

💻📰 Web/Print Chart, Sep 2025, Simple Version
We have data on more than 4,300 news and information sources included on the chart. That’s a lot of valuable information about the reliability and bias of various media outlets. But including that much data into a single chart image has its challenges.

Over the years we’ve heard complaints that the chart is too crowded and the source logos are too small, making the chart difficult to read. Last September, by request, we released our first “simple” Media Bias Chart® that contained some of the major web, podcast and TV/video sources in one image. Because it was so popular, we’ve opted to do that again this year, but instead of one chart, we’re releasing three: one for web sources, one for podcasts and one for TV/video sources.

Today we’re releasing the simple Media Bias Chart® for websites. (The simple podcast and TV/video charts will be published later this month.) Remember, in order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed the sections around the edges. That means that we have omitted any sources that fall entirely within the “Most Extreme” right and left bias categories and the “Contains Inaccurate/Fabricated Info” reliability category.

We’ve fully rated 2,700 websites, but this simple Media Bias Chart® features only 37 sources of them (find a list of those 37 here). You can download a free, licensed version of this simple, magnified Media Bias Chart® for websites here!

Here’s a list of the sources that fall within the green box on this chart. Our analyst team has found that these sources are generally reliable and minimally biased:
AP
Ballotpedia
BBC
LA Times
Newsweek
Quillette
Reason
The Center Square
The Hill
The New York Times
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
WIRED
World News Group
Yahoo News

These simple charts do help with visibility, but they don’t help us to solve the question we get most often — people who are looking for a particular source, and it’s not included on that month’s chart image. As I said before, we’ve rated thousands of sources, and we have to select only a few dozen of them to put on each static chart in order to keep it readable.

If you can, pick up a pen or pencil instead of that keyboard..

Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.

Super Bowl Sociology!

THE SUPER BOWL: A sociological view - Sociology Toolbox The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Guerrero: What first-generation college students actually need An activist surveyed the students and found a mental health crisis fueled by financial fears and loneliness.

You Can Succeed At College Once You Figure Out All The Little Things No One Tells You About The "hidden curriculum" of higher education, explained.

For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."