Great find!   I admit to being taken by this chart when I first found
it, simply (or most notably?) because I was so hungry for it.

I appreciate the analysis in the linked article, but I attribute a lot
of the use(full-less)ness of the chart to it's significant dimension
reduction, and the specific choice of basis space.  

It seems *we* visited another acute reduction a few months back with
what I took to be a strong self-image bias at the time:

http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-homunculus-edition.html


> Complex or clickbait?: The problematic Media Bias Chart
> https://acrlog.org/2021/02/23/complex-or-clickbait-the-problematic-media-bias-chart/
>
>
> On 1/13/21 11:52 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
>> https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2/
>>
>> from the FAQ:
>>> Ad Fontes Media is a Public Benefit Corporation in Colorado, which means it 
>>> is a for-profit corporation with a stated public benefit mission. That 
>>> mission is "to make news consumers smarter and news media better." 
>>>
>>> The startup company, which was founded in February of 2018, was initially 
>>> self-funded by its Founder and CEO, Vanessa Otero, who is a patent attorney 
>>> in Westminster, CO. The company's initial products included digital 
>>> licenses and poster prints of the Media Bias Chart®. Ad Fontes Media can 
>>> and does accept individual donations through its, but they are not tax 
>>> deductible. 
>>>
>>> From September to November 2018, the company ran a crowdfunding campaign on 
>>> Indiegogo and raised approximately $32,000 from 508 individual backers. 
>>> This funding was used to hire a team of part-time analysts to conduct our 
>>> first Multi-Analyst Ratings Project, build our database, and build out our 
>>> Interactive Media Bias Chart. 
>>>
>>> Since August 2019, Ad Fontes Media has expanded its products and services 
>>> to include the following:
>>>
>>>     Individual memberships that provide updated licensed versions of the 
>>> Media Bias Chart and other benefits
>>>     An educational news literacy software platform called CART, available 
>>> via subscription
>>>     News rating data via API
>>>     Media Bias Chart merchandise such as mugs, t-shirts, stickers, and 
>>> posters.
>>>
>>> Ad Fontes Media does not sell ads on its website. Ad Fontes Media currently 
>>> has no organizational donors or outside investors; however, Ad Fontes Media 
>>> may seek such funding to grow in the future and will disclose any such 
>>> funding sources on this site.
>>
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