Source Bias Checklist
- Internal consistency.
- External consistency.
- Dialog and dissent.
- Awareness of objections.
- Snarl words and purr words.
- Implicit bias.
- Narrative.
- Red herrings and straw men.
- Fallacies.
- Psychological factors.
- Source's experiences, perspective, perceptions.
- Debts and favors.
- Medium is the message.
- The human voice.
- Encourage anonymous sources to go on the record.
- Judge source's reliability and disclose potential biases.
- More specificity is better.
- Do not rely on anonymous sources for sensational reports.
- Source must have first-hand knowledge.
- Do not lie to protect a source.
- What is the source's ideological orientation?
- What are the source's financial interests?
