Ad Fontes’ First Simple Chart for Podcasts

Our First Simple Chart for Podcasts

“This week we released our first simple Media Bias Chart® for podcasts, which features 25 shows from across the political spectrum.

Why is this called a “simple” chart? Over the years we’ve heard complaints that the chart is too crowded and the source logos are too small, making the chart difficult to read. Our simple charts help to solve these issues by including fewer sources but making the logos larger.

The logos included on the chart represent sources that our team has rated as both high and low in reliability, as well as bias ratings ranging from balanced to hyper-partisan left and right. Several types of news podcasts are featured, including many that focus on political news and opinion, such as MeidasTouch Podcast, Pod Save America and The Ben Shapiro Show.

We also included podcasts from Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman, which are primarily interview shows of both non-political and political guests. The reliability and bias ratings of these podcasts are made up of both what the guests say and how the host interacts with the guest. For more on Joe Rogan’s podcast rating specifically, check out our video about it.

Many of our website visitors over the past week or so have searched for our rating of Charlie Kirk’s podcast. We didn’t include it in this version because our purpose of putting out this chart isn’t to generate discussion or debate about him or his content in the aftermath of his assassination. There is more than enough of that on the internet right now. But you can search the content we have rated from two of Charlie Kirk’s programs (one podcast and one TV program on Real America’s Voice) on our desktop Interactive Media Bias Chart® and on our free mobile app.

On this simple podcast chart, we wanted to make the logos as large and as readable as possible. So, we’ve magnified a portion of the chart and removed the sections around the edges. That means that we have omitted any sources that fall entirely within the “Most Extreme” right and left bias categories and the “Contains Inaccurate/Fabricated Info” reliability category.

In all, our team has fully rated 835 podcasts, and this simple Media Bias Chart® features only 25 of them (find a list of those 25 here). You can download a free, licensed version of this simple, magnified Media Bias Chart® for podcasts below.

• All In Podcast (All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg)
• Left, Right & Center
• Morning Wire
• NYT: The Daily
• NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
• WSJ: The Journal.

To find out where other podcasts fall on the chart, you can search for them by name on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® or on the free app for Android and iPhone. Both are free (with daily search limits), but the interactive chart requires a subscription in order to search all 4,300 web, podcast and TV/video sources we’ve rated.”