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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

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the show with friends and family. As always, thank you so much for your support. Media bias is one of

the great problems facing our democracy. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how much time you spend

consuming news. If your news diet is unbalanced, you are or how much time you spend consuming news.

If your news diet is unbalanced, you are very likely developing a false picture of the most important news stories of the day.

To combat this problem, I've recently been using something called ground news.

Ground news is both a website and a smartphone app that collects the most important

stories of the day, along with the various articles that cover that story, and then sorts the

articles by their political bias in a user-friendly way. So, for example, I'm recording this on

November 21st, when the biggest story is that a federal judge

throughout President Trump's lawsuit requesting that the results of the Pennsylvania election

not be certified. So I can click on that story and then get a collection of links sorted by

political bias. I can then check out how the left is covering the story and how the right is covering it.

But the most important part of this app is a feature called Blind Spot.

If your news diet is unbalanced, then every day there will be stories that you simply don't see.

There are whole topics that the right is not interested in covering, and likewise for the left.

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