How news isolated are you?

The webzine Slate has a cool new feature available today. You can click a button and it will scan the news sites that you’ve visited recently.

This will offer a snapshot of how liberal or conservative the readership of those sites tends to be, and give you a sense for whether your news consumption is heavily slanted one way or the other.

After poking its nose into my computer, Slate found that these are the national news sites I frequent.

(Note: The percentages given track how many of the sites’ readers are conservative — not necessarily how conservative their articles tend to be.  They used a survey of self-identified web users to reach this conclusion.)

Think Progress (6% conservative)
The Hill (75% conservative)
The Economist (56% conservative)
St. Petersburg Times (61% conservative)
Salon (34% conservative)
Politico (65% conservative)
NPR: National Public Radio (28% conservative)
Slate (49% conservative)
Washington Post (37% conservative)
Drudge Report (93% conservative)
The Huffington Post (30% conservative)
The New York Times (40% conservative)
Fox News (88% conservative)
CNN (54% conservative)
MSNBC (57% conservative)

The program then gives me this analysis:

At these sites, the readership is on average 52 percent conservative, 48 percent liberal

You can test your own reading habits and see how they stack up on the ideological continuum here.

Note that not all news sites online are scanned as part of the program.  For some reason, NCPR and the In Box aren’t on the list…