{"id":1997,"date":"2010-04-30T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:48:16","slug":"how-news-isolated-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/30\/how-news-isolated-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How news isolated are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The webzine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2252247\/\">Slate has a cool new feature<\/a> available today.  You can click a button and it will scan the news sites that you&#8217;ve visited recently.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>After poking its nose into my computer, Slate found that these are the national news sites I frequent.<\/p>\n<p>(Note:  The percentages given track how many of the sites&#8217; readers are conservative &#8212; not necessarily how conservative their articles tend to be.\u00a0 They used a survey of self-identified web users to reach this conclusion.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think Progress  (6% conservative)<br \/>\nThe Hill  (75% conservative)<br \/>\nThe Economist  (56% conservative)<br \/>\nSt. Petersburg Times  (61% conservative)<br \/>\nSalon  (34% conservative)<br \/>\nPolitico  (65% conservative)<br \/>\nNPR: National Public Radio  (28% conservative)<br \/>\nSlate  (49% conservative)<br \/>\nWashington Post  (37% conservative)<br \/>\nDrudge Report  (93% conservative)<br \/>\nThe Huffington Post  (30% conservative)<br \/>\nThe New York Times  (40% conservative)<br \/>\nFox News  (88% conservative)<br \/>\nCNN  (54% conservative)<br \/>\nMSNBC  (57% conservative)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The program then gives me this analysis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At these sites, the readership is on average 52 percent conservative, 48 percent liberal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2252247\/\">You can test your own reading habits and see how they stack up on the ideological continuum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that not all news sites online are scanned as part of the program.\u00a0 For some reason, NCPR and the In Box aren&#8217;t on the list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The webzine Slate has a cool new feature available today. You can click a button [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}