The Harold & AllSides
The Harold vs. AllSides
AllSides helps you see media bias and read a story from every angle. The Harold strips the spin out and reads you the facts in five minutes. They're built for different moments in your day — and they work well together.
The short version: AllSides is a tool for studying how a story is being framed across the political spectrum. The Harold is a five-minute audio briefing that hands you the facts with the framing already removed. Use AllSides when you want to dig in. Let Harold be the calm baseline you start the day with.
What AllSides does well
AllSides has spent more than a decade on one honest idea: most of us read the news from a single perspective without realizing it. It rates outlets Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, and Right, and lays the same story out side by side so you can see how each side covers it. It's a genuinely useful, well-built resource — and if you want to understand media bias itself, it's one of the best places to start.
That's reading work, though. It's most valuable when you have the time and the appetite to compare three versions of a headline and form your own read on the framing.
What The Harold is for
The Harold starts from the same place AllSides does — spin is everywhere, and it's exhausting — but it answers a different question: what if you don't want to do the comparing?
Every morning, Harold reads 400+ sources from across the spectrum, cross-references the facts, and strips out the loaded language, the outrage hooks, and the editorializing. What's left becomes a tight, roughly five-minute audio briefing you listen to while you make coffee and get ready. No left column, no right column — just what happened, read to you, then on with your day.
See the spin
A website and app for comparing coverage, rating outlet bias, and analyzing how a story is framed. Built for readers who want to dig in.
Skip the spin
A 5-minute AI-generated audio briefing with the framing already removed. Built for the part of the morning when you just want the facts.
How they work together
This isn't an either/or. AllSides and The Harold sit at two ends of the same goal — getting past one-sided news.
Let Harold be your starting point: five spin-free minutes so you begin the day actually knowing what happened. Then, when a story matters to you and you want to see how it's being framed, that's exactly what AllSides is for. One gives you the calm baseline; the other lets you go deep. We think a good news diet has room for both.
The one thing Harold will never do is take a dollar from an advertiser. No ads, no sponsors, no tracking — ever. Your subscription is the only thing funding it, which is the whole reason it can stay this plain.
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