Mute the Media

7: Introduction to Media


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Mat and Kasey begin the conversation about the internet, media, and social media as they discuss some of the good/bad media impacts on society today.

Remember you can find us and subscribe at Apple or Spotify. You can always find us on our Facebook page at Mute the Media or our host site Audioboom as well (links below).

Sources

1) How people access media today per Pew Research Center
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/12/more-than-eight-in-ten-americans-get-news-from-digital-devices/

2) Where people are getting their news per Pew Research Center
- https://www.journalism.org/2021/01/12/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-in-2020/

3) 6/10 people aren't clicking their own link when they share to SM, research indicates that it's as high as 7/10 people not clicking past the headline on Facebook
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/16/six-in-10-of-you-will-share-this-link-without-reading-it-according-to-a-new-and-depressing-study/
- http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-only-read-the-headline/
- https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01281190

4) Guide To Sources, this is not exhaustive or perfect. Just a tool/starting point and can be found on the Mute the Media facebook page or at the bottom. 

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Media Source Guide

Least/Minimal Bias 

The AP
Reuters
American Heritage
CSpan
The Christian Science Monitor
CNET
The CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
Doctors Without Border
FactCheck
Gallup
Harvard Business Review
Investopedia
PewResearch
Politico
Politifact
Rand Corporation
Snopes
Statista
The Balance
The Economist
The Hill
ThoughtCo
TruthOrFiction
Voice Of America
Wikipedia
Worldometer

Right Leaning

Cato Institute
Reason
Christianity Today
Forbes
Fox Business
Fortune
The Economist
Heterodox Academy
Hoover Institution
Market Watch
National Affairs
National Review
New York Observer
The American Conservative 
The Spectator
Wall Street Journal

Left Leaning

Amnesty International 
Anti Defamation League (ADL)
Axios
BBC
Brookings Institution
Business Insider
Columbia Journalism Review
FivethirtyEight
Harvard Political Review
Heavy
Human Rights Watch
Mountain Democrat
NBC News
New York Times (NYT)
National Public Radio (NPR)
PBS NewsHour
Quartz
Rational Wiki
Sacramento Bee
SF Gate
The Verge
Time Magazine
USA Today
Washington Post (WaPo)

Strong Left Lean

Atlantic 
Common Dreams
Jacobin
Media Matters
Mother Jones
Rolling Stone 
Salon
Slate
Vice News

Pro Science Outlets

Air and Space Mag
American Journal of Archaeology
American Psychological Association
American Scientist
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Cosmos Magazine
Encyclopedia Britannica 
HealthLine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
LiveScience
MIT Technology Review
NASA
National Academy of Sciences
National Geographic
Nature
Psychology Today
RealClearScience
ResearchGate
Sage Journals
Scientific American
Smithsonian Magazine




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