Posted on 12/15/2023 4:58:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
‘That which government is constitutionally prohibited from doing, it cannot contract with others to do.’
In a study published Tuesday, Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America found that NewsGuard, the taxpayer censorship giant self-tasked with rating media outlets on reliability, “overwhelmingly favored left-leaning outlets over right-leaning ones.” This is the third year MRC Free Speech America has exposed NewsGuard for its partisanship, and, according to MRC, NewsGuard has become “even worse” than years prior.
Using AllSides, an organization that classifies media outlets by their “right” to “left” bias, “MRC researchers determined that NewsGuard provided a stellar average ‘credibility’ rating of 91/100 for ‘left’ and ‘lean left’ outlets (e.g., The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Vox),” wrote MRC researchers. Meanwhile, “right” and “lean right” outlets, such as Fox News, the New York Post, and The Daily Wire, were given “an outrageously abysmal average score of 65/100.”
“NewsGuard’s rating for right-leaning outlets in particular was worse than the still-low 66/100 average rating it slapped on right-leaning media across the prior two MRC studies released Jan. 6, 2023 and Dec. 13, 2021,” MRC noted.
The Double Standard
One of the strongest examples of NewsGuard’s brazen bias is how it excused legacy media outlets’ false labeling of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” back in 2020.
The Washington Post, USA Today, and Politico — all outlets that discredited the story — were given “flawless 100/100 scores.” The seriousness of what these legacy media organizations did cannot be understated. As MRC noted, polling indicates that suppression of the laptop story played a deciding role in the 2020 election.
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“Free Speech America” found the tax-paid censorship giant, NewsGuard, which self-servingly rates media outlets and platforms like X, overwhelmingly favored left-leaning outlets over right-leaning ones in reports to its subscribers like libraries and universities.
FREEPER ACTION
Call Congress NOW
(202) 224-3121
Tell them your state and zip, they’ll connect you.
MESSAGE Americans are being violated by tax-paid censors NewsGuard:
<><>this is in violation of Consumer Protection Law,
<><>and Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
<><>these are laws and rules that protects consumers from unfair business practices.
“Free Speech America” found the tax-paid censorship giant, NewsGuard, which self-servingly rates media outlets and platforms like X, overwhelmingly favored left-leaning outlets over right-leaning ones in reports to its subscribers like libraries and universities.
FREEPER ACTION
Call Congress NOW
(202) 224-3121
Tell them your state and zip, they’ll connect you.
MESSAGE ‘That which government is constitutionally prohibited from doing, it cannot
contract with others to do.’ Americans are being violated by tax-paid censors NewsGuard:
<><>this is in violation of Consumer Protection Law,
<><>and Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
<><>these are laws and rules that protects consumers from unfair business practices.
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Nice compilation.
Anything that is government funded is always biased to the left because government always promotes more government (socialism). How many recessions has the US suffered since WW2? Quite a few, depending on the source of the data. How many recessions (shrinkage) has the central government (Washington) endured? Absolutely none. Our central government has grown and continues to grow uncontrollably regardless of what else is happening in America.
Like colon cancer.
I have a friend who learned this week that her colon cancer was not only terminal but she had a very short time to live.
Colon Cancer comes with a terminal off switch
They’re paranoid about saying “Republican”......which Lincoln was.
Eventually, the word ‘republic’ will disappear from the English language.
How can you have a ‘republic’ if no one knows what one is?....................
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What taxpayer funded entity is not leftist?
Democrat party and NewsGuard and others have a lot in common like the movie The Boys From Brazil but in real life.
I remember seeing that before. Where is/was it?
My guess would be that they replaced the sign and left off Lincoln’s party affiliation altogether and did not change it to say Republican.
It’s in Illinois of all places!...........
Their excuse is that they meant that Lincoln was a ‘pro-democracy president’..............yeah, riiiiight..............
NewsGuard? Fitting title.
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