I agree with kos: if these Newsguard folks redline DK and don’t redline FoxNews, Daily Wire, and Daily Caller considering the ownership and financing of the latter, something’s wrong.
Notwithstanding their clear promotion of the RWNJ agenda by “greenlining” Daily Wire and Daily Caller, these Newsguard folks are ideologically challenged, or in the interest of transparency are they compromised by a conservative point of view like Steve Brill’s history of teachers union attacks.
It is why some of us use tags like “snark” regularly simply to remind people that the information environment is also a public sphere that demands your critical thinking. All news has commentary as its subtext, which is why indynews exists to question all MSM and why folks here regularly complain about the contradictions of MSM news reporting.
This site’s commentary as self-governing is always measured against its ability to moderate content, sans an actual news service operation, so it always depends on triangulating credible sources, often in spite of their reputations. More often than not DK stresses meta-criticism because it’s necessary in an age of disinformation.
OTOH, it wouldn’t be fun here if there weren’t the literal language police in every comment section, stamping out the figurative heterogeneity of word meaning, keeping imagination in an iron cage, and reaching for their dictionaries when they hear the word “culture”.
Using browser extensions like Newsguard to screen your content won’t make you any more critical if the extension’s already green-lit the corporate sources for Individual-1’s morning tweet-screeds.
Framing algorithms are probably essential given how poor the Web of Trust really is at the level of not stealing your geolocation data, but redlining DK and not redlining Daily Wire and Daily Caller is clearly about ideology and not news.
It’s more Newsgate as in gatekeeping, rather than Newsguarding us from anything.
Criteria |
Points |
Does not repeatedly publish false content |
22 |
Gathers and presents information responsibly |
18 |
Regularly corrects or clarifies errors |
12.5 |
Handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly |
12.5 |
Avoids deceptive headlines |
10 |
Website discloses ownership and financing |
7.5 |
Clearly labels advertising |
7.5 |
Reveals who’s in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest |
5 |
Provides information about content creators |
5 |
www.newsguardtech.com/...
NewsGuard considers Fox News a healthy part of your news diet
Some would agree! Others would disagree! But that’s the challenge of creating a simple green/red label for a news site: You’ve got to have a cut-off line somewhere, and for NewsGuard, it’s somewhere south of Fox News.
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Well, NewsGuard officially launched the first public version of its primary tool (a browser extension) yesterday, which means “What color is Fox News?” is now officially a question it has to answer. And the answer is:
Green.
Which means, in NewsGuardese, that “This website generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability.”
Or, as the company describes its ratings: “Our Green-Red ratings signal if a website is trying to get it right or instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda.”
Or, as it also puts it, the green and red ratings let you “easily determine which you can trust and which you should read with caution.” Phew, that caution was getting tiring!
These are some other sites “you can trust,” according to NewsGuard: the conservative Daily Caller and Daily Wire, and the liberal Second Nexus and PoliticusUSA.
These are ones you should “read with caution”: Palmer Report (“highly speculative…misleading”), The Political Insider (“regularly publishes false and misleading stories”), Hannity (“advance[s] a variety of conspiracy theories”), Gateway Pundit (“regularly distorts information”), Breitbart (“sometimes distorts or omits facts to fit its agenda”), the Daily Mail (“repeatedly publishes false information”), 100PercentFedUp (“inaccurate stories and headlines”), Bipartisan Report (“anonymous articles…sensational headlines”), Shareblue (“charged, misleading language”), and Daily Kos (“often add[s] commentary and exaggeration”).
www.niemanlab.org/...
Read me with caution. If you don’t I might wash your mind … BWAHAHAHAHA