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Perhaps it's more apt to say Western than the US, but it's still generally applicable. The part about the US is also relevant to the bias, not the factuality.
They explain the overall definition of bias inside the methodology, where they compare the different kinds of bias to make the final definition.
The economic system of a news outlet depends on whether that news outlet is public, private, or government. For example, the BBC doesn't need to worry about viewership or ad revenue because it gets its funding from the government.
You can view how they rate bias on each outlet's page. Neutral language and fact-based reporting are the key defining factors for their bias.
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That statement does not make sense, given the rubric is:
And even from a Western perspective, "centrism without bias" being right of a regulated market economy sounds like propaganda.
Especially since they use words wrong. Corporatism does not refer to "rule by corporations", but "rule by incorporated elements like trade and industry unions, and collective bargaining". For reference, the Nordics are heavily corporatists. No minimum wage, but strong union presence. Are they radical right?
BTW the word they are looking for is corporatocracy, which is defined as a range between excessive corrupution of a state to totalitarian dictatorships, which is a radical right ideology adjacent to fascism.
I get what they are trying to do, which is to try and bridge the two mainstream US public's thought processes, but in most - arguably more free - countries, politics does not boil down to two parties, two narratives, two publics and two choices. I don't mind that they do what they do, but it makes zero sense to try and apply it to Israel and Gaza, which itself has more than two competing narratives, which such a binary is too basic to cover.
The bigger problem is that it forces thought into a dichotomy, which eliminates conversation and shuts down reason and understanding, and only lets tribalism and rage prevail.