Posted on 01/12/2022 10:39:49 AM PST by JV3MRC
The left-wing media’s Ministry of Truth — website ratings firm NewsGuard — is at it again, slamming conservative news outlets while promoting liberal rags. And conservative leaders are furious.
The firm’s report headlined, “Special Report: The U.S. Best and Worst of 2021,” claimed to “identify the misinformation websites with the most online engagement in 2021 in the United States.” In addition, NewsGuard alleged, “We also highlight a selection of the trustworthy sites that are producing reliable journalism, including for local and niche markets.” NewsGuard had two lists sub-headlined “The Ten Most Influential Misinformers” and “The Ten Top ‘Trustworthy and Trending’ Sites,” respectively. Not surprisingly, NewsGuard labeled websites like The Federalist, Newsmax, LifeNews, LiveAction and ZeroHedge “misinformation,” and mostly left-wing propaganda websites like NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and NBCNews.com “trustworthy.”
Two of the outlets panned by NewsGuard smacked down the firm as completely biased and unreliable in exclusive comments to MRC’s Free Speech America.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Anyone can call himself a fact checker or media truth monitor. In fact one would expect a partisan organization to set up such “watchdogs” which are just part of the partisan campaign.
NewsGuard is evil. They exist to destroy right-leaning news outlets.
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