Grading Content & Exposing Bias
The mirror test
Everyone has a lens — the fix isn't pretending otherwise, it's reading the same story through more than one. Clad scores every broadcast's political lean separately from its accuracy, so you can deliberately read across the spectrum instead of inside your feed.
Pick a story below that appears in more than one lane, read a report from each side, and notice which framing felt "obviously right" before you checked a single source — that feeling is the bias worth knowing about. Lean is not a verdict on accuracy: a leaning report can be factually careful, and a centered one can get things wrong, which is why every report also carries its own accuracy grade and receipts. When you want a scored version of this exercise, the Morning Quiz runs every day.
Signed-in readers see the last two weeks of coverage sorted into left, centered, and right lanes — a free account unlocks the sorting along with every grade and lean rating. Here's today's free sample with its full scoreboard:
Graded A-: core claims on layoffs, station closures, affected markets, and stated reasons match primary company statements and contemporaneous reporting; minor gaps in listener-number sourcing and limited counter-data on revenue trends.
Source: CBC News
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