Медийно Око
Българските онлайн-медии за обществени новини под лупа

The goal of the "Media Eye" project is to keep the average reader aware about which Bulgarian political and policy news online-media are anonymous or break the elementary media ethics in a democratic society.

Originally, I started the project in November 2013 (in Bulgarian) as a simple list of the Bulgarian public news online-media with no explicit ownership or editorial responsibility, shown on the media's website itself.
The first edition as a website and a Chrome extension, with detailed information on more than 350 public news websites, was released on December 12, 2016 (in Bulgarian) with focus on anonymous media.

Anonymous media

Special attention is paid to the anonymous media, since it forges public opinion without the necessary transparency about the potential interests behind the editorial policy - morally unacceptable in a functioning democracy.

The criteria for anonymous public news media is one that doesn't provide the average reader explicitly with easily-accessible information on the ownership and/or editorial responsibility at the website itself.

Unethical media

The second edition of the project introduced also categorization by type of unethical content - such as fake news, defamation, conspiracy theories, hate speech and others. The categorization based on project creator's discretion, but provides concrete examples of the publications which are the reason for the particular categorization. This way, everyone can verify the creator's assessment regarding the media ethics violation.

Excluded from the scope

Excluded from the scope of the project are:

  • media, specialized in topics that do not forge political or policy public opinion - such as health and medical advice, sports, arts, technology, science, the occult, travel, entertainment, hobbies, the unexplained etc.
  • personal blogs
  • national government and local government websites
  • websites of businesses and organizations (unless they publish public opinion related news)
  • sub-sites of national sites, usually geographically focused
Since April 2020, TV and radio-station websites are also included


The larger portion of the information on the websites, included in the project, is collected with automated tools, but has also been manually verified. It is possible there are unintended errors. I apologize in advance for any erroneous information. If you find concrete and objectively verifiable problems and errors, please point them to me: I will review and eventually make corresponding amendments as soon as possible.

Цитирания на проекта

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all contributors:

  • Konstantin Pavlov (Komitata) for providing significant part of the initial list of media websites.
  • Kapka Popova, Venelin Grozev and Aleksandar Kirilov who regularly provide new sites, not included in the project yet, or missing and updated information.
  • Venci Kunev who pointed me to the idea of the Facebook-code of the browser extension.


Проектът е реализиран изключително в обществена полза, без никакво финансиране. Идея и безвъзмездно изпълнение от Красимир Гаджоков, gadjokov@gmail.com. Свободно и безплатно ползване при цитиране на автора и уебсайта.

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