Thursday, April 29, 2010

Which way do you skew?

There’s a piece at Slate.com that identifies your “political leanings” based on your news sites of choice. It seems to me the study that underlies the test has all kinds of methodological problems; but, the results are interesting:

Sites Visited:
Financial Times (81% conservative)
Technorati (37% conservative)
Salon (34% conservative)
NPR: National Public Radio (28% conservative)
Slate (49% conservative)
Los Angeles Times (45% conservative)
Washington Post (37% conservative)
The Huffington Post (30% conservative)
The New York Times (40% conservative)
Fox News (88% conservative)
CNN (54% conservative)

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

Your isolation index is -34, meaning that, on the bell curve of all readers, your news diet is 34 percentage points to the left.

Here’s the link to the article: http://www.slate.com/id/2252247/

It didn't capture everything I read. I would imagine that Google News is pretty middle of the road. The local AJC is actually starting to skew conservative. I guess I'm going to have to start clicking on the New York Post, the Drudge Report and Beck and Hannity's websites to get my skew back towards the middle.

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