The Connors Institute Is Now Partners With the Creators of the “Media Bias Chart”
The Connors Institute Is Now Partners With the Creators of the “Media Bias Chart”
PLUS: New Outrage Overload episodes!
You are probably familiar with the “Media Bias Chart” shown above, which is the brainchild of Ad Fontes Media CEO Vanessa Otero (you can hear Otero on the Utterly Moderate Podcast below).
The Connors Institute at Shippensburg University is excited to announce that we are now partnering with Ad Fontes Media!
This partnership will provide Connors researchers opportunities to collaborate with an organization that is a leader in helping Americans identify reliable information.
Ad Fontes Media’s accuracy and bias ratings, along with those from NewsGuard and AllSides, are a key element of the Connors rubric for determining the trustworthiness of information sources.
You can check out the Media Bias Chart and everything else that Ad Fontes Media does in the information literacy space by visiting their website.
You can also check out Ad Fontes Media’s CEO, Vanessa Otero, on a previous episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast below:
New Outrage Overload Episodes!
First up is Robert J. Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, who joins the Outrage Overload program to take us on a fascinating journey through the history of outrage media—from the early seeds of sensationalism to the clickbait algorithms of the digital age.
Then we are joined by Hajar Yazdiha, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, to discuss how the Civil Rights Movement is often relegated to simplified narratives and sanitized snapshots. Yazdiha helps us to delve deeper, exposing the intentional distortions and selective amnesia surrounding this pivotal historical era.