• by Ray Schultz , December 5, 2024

Editors and publishers have many variables to consider when gauging their performance. Here is a new one: Los Angeles Times is implementing what it calls a “bias meter,” The Wrap reports. 

Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong announced the feature while speaking on the "Flyover Country" podcast.

“Whether in news or opinion … you have a bias meter,” Soon-Shiong said, according to The Wrap. “So that someone could understand as a reader that the source of the article has some level of bias.”

Soon-Shiong added, “The reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story, based on that story, and then give comments.”