Many media rating sites put DW news as center to center-left in their bias meter. That can't be further from the truth of the actual situation. DW is hard left while not to the extreme left - YET.
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Some may ask what makes you say that? A recent news reporting I saw on Youtube. A report on the US's deportation of illegals. One thing that caught my attention was the title of the news which is suspiciously missing the word "illegal" which changes the context of the news. It is implying that the Trump's administration is cracking down on immigration in general. Of course that is far from the truth. No legal migrant was deported neither was any legally naturalized migrant.
It was a red-flag reporting for me. I just brushed it off as one overly bias DW editor acting out. Then I reloaded Youtube and based on my recent view history YT recommended another DW video. This time it is about rise of "far-right" in the US. I begin to see a pattern. So I watched the DW "documentary". To call it a thinly veiled hit piece was an understatement. The video is all about how crazy and extreme the right is and to the surprise of no one nothing about the extremism of the left to balance the reporting. And look who they put as the video thumbnail to drive the point.
My intuition kicked in. There is something suspicious about the journalism at DW (at this point it may as well be are - plural). So I went into the DW channel and did a search about "left" and "extremist". It literally return no video exploring the other side of the political spectrum. What was return were more "documentary" about the US right again in less than flattering light.
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Now I have junked DW "news" and "documentaries". Never watching any more from this channel like I have rubbished other overt bias news (be it left or right). Partisan hacks one and all.

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LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

Some may ask what makes you say that? A recent news reporting I saw on Youtube. A report on the US's deportation of illegals. One thing that caught my attention was the title of the news which is suspiciously missing the word "illegal" which changes the context of the news. It is implying that the Trump's administration is cracking down on immigration in general. Of course that is far from the truth. No legal migrant was deported neither was any legally naturalized migrant.
It was a red-flag reporting for me. I just brushed it off as one overly bias DW editor acting out. Then I reloaded Youtube and based on my recent view history YT recommended another DW video. This time it is about rise of "far-right" in the US. I begin to see a pattern. So I watched the DW "documentary". To call it a thinly veiled hit piece was an understatement. The video is all about how crazy and extreme the right is and to the surprise of no one nothing about the extremism of the left to balance the reporting. And look who they put as the video thumbnail to drive the point.
My intuition kicked in. There is something suspicious about the journalism at DW (at this point it may as well be are - plural). So I went into the DW channel and did a search about "left" and "extremist". It literally return no video exploring the other side of the political spectrum. What was return were more "documentary" about the US right again in less than flattering light.
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Now I have junked DW "news" and "documentaries". Never watching any more from this channel like I have rubbished other overt bias news (be it left or right). Partisan hacks one and all.