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Why are they putting CNN and other capitalist publications on the left hand side of center?
No idea. I take it with a grain of salt. I guess we need to remember just how far right most publications are.
It was actually a rhetorical question, because I already know the answer. The answer is that the political spectrum is always relative. There's no such thing as a middle or a center, there's only left or right relative to some other point. It's like movements in space, space doesn't have a north pole or an objective reference point, so you can only say that a particular solar system is a certain distance from our own or some other arbitrary reference point.
Ground News chooses to have an arbitrary reference point, while telling its users that it's an objective source of understanding bias. This is deceptive. It makes users feel that they're unbiased, while entrenching them in the particular biases of USA politics. This is very bad for society as a whole. Ground News is brain rot.
I feel like this is a bit extreme. I assume it has an American bias which I already know is inherently more right than I'd normally think. I adjust my mental read of their scores appropriately. Most of their users are probably American.
It's arbitrary in the same way the current American status quo is.