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Media bias

Bias is more than a label on a source.

Haze explains bias through repeated editorial choices: what gets covered, what gets minimized, who gets quoted, and how uncertainty is framed.

Historical context
Media literacy
News bias is easier to understand as repeated editorial behavior than as a single publisher label. Public arguments about news bias grew through wartime coverage, television-era agenda setting, cable-news fragmentation, social media distribution, and the modern "fake news" label. Haze keeps the page focused on reader behavior.
Story selection
Different outlets can emphasize different events, omit context, or return to a topic at different rates. Haze treats those selection patterns as part of the coverage picture.
Framing
Framing covers word choice, headline emphasis, source selection, and which tradeoffs a story presents as central.
Source mix
A balanced reading session usually needs more than one publisher. Haze shows source breadth and political distribution before readers leave the page.
Example: one policy story, three frames
Compare language
Left frame
Lead with people affected by the policy, quote advocates first, and emphasize the cost of delay.
Center frame
Lead with the policy change, name what is confirmed, and separate competing claims from settled facts.
Right frame
Lead with fiscal or legal tradeoffs, quote critics earlier, and emphasize risk from the intervention.
Live story examples
Story API
Haze pulls current story clusters into this guide so readers can move from media-literacy concepts to live coverage, source breadth, and bias-mix review.
Try bias checks in Article checker
Article checker
Use these example checks to see how a single article or headline connects to source breadth, matched-cluster evidence, and the Bias Bar before you share it.
Check a story URL
Paste a current article URL to see whether Haze can match it to a story cluster, source mix, and bias-distribution context.

Lookup type

Article URL check

Example input

https://example.com/news/policy-plan-analysis
Open in Article checker
Check a headline
Paste a headline when you do not have a URL. Haze treats it as a headline check and looks for matching coverage clusters.

Lookup type

Headline check

Example input

Central bank faces split over next rate cut
Open in Article checker
Media bias FAQ
Reader questions