Transparency in News Coverage
See the full picture. Understand how news is reported.
What is Drishti News?
Drishti News is an India-focused political news aggregation and media-literacy platform. It compares how different outlets cover the same event so users can identify bias patterns and blindspots without being told what to think.
Why This Exists
Why combat bias?
Promote Critical Thinking
Encourage questioning of news framing and narrative.
Prevent Echo Chambers
Highlight underreported viewpoints and stories.
Enhance Civic Literacy
Reduce polarization by exposing multiple perspectives.
Understanding Bias Buckets
What do Left, Center, and Right mean?
LEFT
Progressive, liberal viewpoints
CENTER
Neutral, balanced reporting
RIGHT
Conservative, nationalist viewpoints
Bias labels are relative indicators based on Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) . They represent political leaning patterns, not truth or credibility judgments.
Our Methodology
How Drishti News works
Article Aggregation
We collect political coverage from multiple Indian news outlets via RSS.
Topic Clustering
Articles covering similar events are grouped into topics using semantic similarity.
Bias Distribution Analysis
Each topic shows distribution across Left, Center, and Right sources.
Blindspot & Low-Evidence Detection
We flag topics where coverage is heavily skewed or insufficient.
What is a Blindspot?
A blindspot is a significant news event that receives disproportionate coverage from one side of the political spectrum while being ignored or underreported by others.
Topic Missed by the Right
Topic Missed by the Left
Bias Classification Source
Drishti News currently sources political leaning labels from Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC). These labels are treated as comparative indicators to support analysis — not fact-checks and not credibility judgments.
Media literacy begins with comparison.
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