{"id":13493,"date":"2024-12-05T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:44:03","slug":"spinranker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/05\/spinranker\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinranker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/los-angeles-times-owner-bias-meter-1236078458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Los Angeles Times Owner Plans to Launch Tech-Driven \u201cBias Meter\u201d On Articles Next Year<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Soon-Shiong says that his team is building a product where &#8220;the reader can press a button and get both sides&#8221; of a story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/author\/erik-hayden-thr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ERIK HAYDEN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-618377722.jpg?w=1296&amp;h=730&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong\u00a0GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks after scrapping a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris that had been prepped by his editorial board, the owner of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-los-angeles-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0says his product team is working on a new tech-driven \u201cbias meter\u201d to add to articles on the paper\u2019s website as soon as next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea, as Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/patrick-soon-shiong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patrick Soon-Shiong<\/a>\u00a0presented it, sounds like it\u2019ll be a module that presents multiple viewpoints on a particular news item as well as allow some version of comments to be integrated. And it marks the latest signal from the billionaire that he plans to reshape the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0as the second Trump administration gears up and after the exits of multiple edit board members following the endorsement flap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImagine if you now take \u2014 whether it be news or opinion \u2014 and you have a bias meter, whether news or opinion, more like the opinion, or the voices, you have a bias meter so somebody could understand as a reader that the source of the article has some level of bias,\u201d Soon-Shiong elaborated in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scottjenningsky.podbean.com\/e\/special-scott-jennings-hosts-the-mike-gallagher-show-hour-3-with-dr-patrick-soon-shiong-and-speaker-mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a radio segment<\/a>\u00a0hosted by incoming\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>editorial board member Scott Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/los-angeles-times-owner-bias-meter-1236078458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter Los Angeles Times Owner Plans to Launch Tech-Driven \u201cBias Meter\u201d On Articles Next Year Patrick Soon-Shiong says that his team is building a product where &#8220;the reader can press a button and get both sides&#8221; of a story.&nbsp; BY\u00a0ERIK HAYDEN Weeks after scrapping a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}