This may be interesting to the general r/switzerland user because it shows stats of this subreddit.
I think noone is surprised that Swiss reddit has a left wing bias. It is stronger than I expected though.
That the most upvoted news site is SRG also isn’t surprising, it is our national news outlet after all. I know it doesn’t say so explicitly, but it seems SRG is counted as a left-wing biased news source, which is interesting and a whole different discussion on it’s own.
This is honestly the only sub where i already got 3 people banned for harrasment, they even put the effort into it to make 0 Karma Accounts.
Ah yes. The left leaning news outlets of SRG, The Guardian, and Reuters…
On what basis is it decided whether a source is left or right? I’m not sure I’d call SRF/swissinfo etc. left but idk
The top three news sources don’t necessarily have to be responsible for the 70% upvotes. But considering these left leaning is a problem of its own and I don’t agree with this classification.
Reuters and SRG aren’t “left leaning sources”.
Why yes higher education leads to left leaning people, reality has a left wing bias
Dumbest indicator I ever seen …
What we learn about this, is that right-wingers aren’t that much present on Reddit… nothing more nothing less.
i actually expected less. reddit in general and especially “local” subs (city/country/state) are HEAVILY leftwing dominated but r/switzerland did not seem that editorialized. does this mean most subs were rated 90% left?
How do you define how an information media is leaning towards left or right?
Serious question since newspapers are supposed to relay neutral information (tho I’m not dumb i know it’s not 100% the case)
Just a note:
I believe that the 3 news source are the 3 biggest news source on the sub period, rather than the 3 biggest left leaning ones. I would think it would be part of the description otherwise.
This is likely true of most social media outlets…
It’s not so bad. Englishforum is much worse, the left censorship is not even hidden there. The beauty of reddit is that if you are not happy a subreddit you can go elsewhere.
I see many surprised about SRG being “left-leaning”. Might not be very left-leaning, but even less right leaning. There is a slighy tendency towards the left here which is why a lot of boomers dislike it. And when looking at “Arena”, that’s generally more biased against the right than the left.
It simply isn’t written to polarise like blick and watson try to, because it’s less reliant on clicks/shares being state media.
When watching SRF DOK you also don’t get an right-wing impression but rather a left-wing one.
I guess “leaning” is the best term you can use if you want to put it into a category.
It’s in the nature of people with right wing opinions that they perceive media which to a big degree reports “dry, unopinionated facts” as “left leaning”. That’s simply because right-wing opinions are usually farther away from the facts than other kinds of opinions.
But it’s not the job of public-law media to create a false balance by doing an interview with a flat-earther for every interview they do with an astronomer or geographer.
American are so biased towards the right they think the SRF is left leaning
Can you d the same for r/Scotland?
The remaining 30% are in the comment section of 20min. /s
How did you do this? I want to look through myself
Now all is left to wonder why progressive people use progressive media while conservative people stick to conservative media from the past.
…Is there a hidden structure I am missing?
who cares, I want to talk with humans, not voters
So sounds like while we get more left-wing articles, we are equally likely to upvote a left or right wing sourced ones.
Left leaning according to which standards?
Neutral is „too left“ for the nazis
anything else would be surprising.
I do have a question what do you mean by left, economically left or socially left or both
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This may be interesting to the general r/switzerland user because it shows stats of this subreddit.
I think noone is surprised that Swiss reddit has a left wing bias. It is stronger than I expected though.
That the most upvoted news site is SRG also isn’t surprising, it is our national news outlet after all. I know it doesn’t say so explicitly, but it seems SRG is counted as a left-wing biased news source, which is interesting and a whole different discussion on it’s own.
This is honestly the only sub where i already got 3 people banned for harrasment, they even put the effort into it to make 0 Karma Accounts.
Ah yes. The left leaning news outlets of SRG, The Guardian, and Reuters…
On what basis is it decided whether a source is left or right? I’m not sure I’d call SRF/swissinfo etc. left but idk
The top three news sources don’t necessarily have to be responsible for the 70% upvotes. But considering these left leaning is a problem of its own and I don’t agree with this classification.
Reuters and SRG aren’t “left leaning sources”.
Why yes higher education leads to left leaning people, reality has a left wing bias
Dumbest indicator I ever seen …
What we learn about this, is that right-wingers aren’t that much present on Reddit… nothing more nothing less.
i actually expected less. reddit in general and especially “local” subs (city/country/state) are HEAVILY leftwing dominated but r/switzerland did not seem that editorialized. does this mean most subs were rated 90% left?
How do you define how an information media is leaning towards left or right?
Serious question since newspapers are supposed to relay neutral information (tho I’m not dumb i know it’s not 100% the case)
Just a note:
I believe that the 3 news source are the 3 biggest news source on the sub period, rather than the 3 biggest left leaning ones. I would think it would be part of the description otherwise.
This is likely true of most social media outlets…
It’s not so bad. Englishforum is much worse, the left censorship is not even hidden there. The beauty of reddit is that if you are not happy a subreddit you can go elsewhere.
I see many surprised about SRG being “left-leaning”. Might not be very left-leaning, but even less right leaning. There is a slighy tendency towards the left here which is why a lot of boomers dislike it. And when looking at “Arena”, that’s generally more biased against the right than the left.
It simply isn’t written to polarise like blick and watson try to, because it’s less reliant on clicks/shares being state media.
When watching SRF DOK you also don’t get an right-wing impression but rather a left-wing one.
I guess “leaning” is the best term you can use if you want to put it into a category.
[Here is the Source](https://ground.news/blindspotter/reddit/switzerland)
We should be proud of ourselves that it’s not 20min or Blick.
Looking at the [source](https://ground.news/blindspotter/reddit/switzerland), the so called “left leaningness” is mostly based on the classification of “Swissinfo” as left.
It’s in the nature of people with right wing opinions that they perceive media which to a big degree reports “dry, unopinionated facts” as “left leaning”. That’s simply because right-wing opinions are usually farther away from the facts than other kinds of opinions.
But it’s not the job of public-law media to create a false balance by doing an interview with a flat-earther for every interview they do with an astronomer or geographer.
American are so biased towards the right they think the SRF is left leaning
Can you d the same for r/Scotland?
The remaining 30% are in the comment section of 20min. /s
How did you do this? I want to look through myself
Now all is left to wonder why progressive people use progressive media while conservative people stick to conservative media from the past.
…Is there a hidden structure I am missing?
who cares, I want to talk with humans, not voters
So sounds like while we get more left-wing articles, we are equally likely to upvote a left or right wing sourced ones.
Left leaning according to which standards?
Neutral is „too left“ for the nazis
anything else would be surprising.
I do have a question what do you mean by left, economically left or socially left or both
Top 10 most popular kids sources according to the [source – Grounded.news](https://ground.news/blindspotter/reddit/switzerland)
SWI SWISSINFO.CH L 2,385 Upvotes
THE GUARDIAN L 409 Upvotes
REUTERS C 282 Upvotes
BBC NEWS C 249 Upvotes
BLOOMBERG L 199 Upvotes
GOOD L 178 Upvotes
WALL STREET JOURNAL R 176 Upvotes
NEW YORK TIMES L 155 Upvotes
EVENING STANDARD R 139 Upvotes
BBC NEWS C 107 Upvotes
that’s your average subreddit.
I would not call the Guardian left, a newspaper that constantly slanders the Swedish left with their liberal agenda.
Why is “left” anymore?? what’s the qualifications !?!? Do you eat Peanuts Butter Jelly bread in the morning? A Freaking Commie you are!!!!!!!
Long live the Soviet Union!