A pretty cool graphic of one person's views of credible vs incredible news sources:
HT: Craig Landry via FB (Craig didn't create the graphic, just reposted)
A few thoughts:
- I'm sure everyone can quibble about placement of some of these, but that kind of misses the point.
- I'm going to quibble.
- I venture to guess that liberal thinkers think the graphic is too conservative and conservative thinkers think it is too liberal. Which probably means it's just about right.
- Drudge is conspicuously missing. I know that Drudge is a news aggregator, but a lot of people use Drudge as their primary starting point. If asked (which I wasn't) I would probably place Drudge to the southeast of Fox, but northwest (no, not Kanye's kid) of the Daily Caller.
- As much as I like to think that quicker access to more information is a preferred way to educate, I doubt that to be the case. While useful, I fear most of the public no longer uses primary news sources, and instead relies on social media. Given social media filtering algorithms, over time the public is pushed to sites that reinforce the views of what they consider to be their own social network. This isn't a criticism, just a reality of social media.
