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Understanding Bias in News Media

If you want unbiased news, there’s only one TV news channel that will deliver that. Most news channels have an agenda based on their commercial relationships. A sports reporter for Fox News isn’t going to tell the viewers that the previous afternoon’s NASCAR race was boring and predictable as Fox is one of the broadcasters for the sport. It’s the same story when you consider political coverage across the major news networks. TV news isn’t as important as it used to be thanks to the internet and social media in particular, but it’s still a major player as around half of all adult Americans still rely on TV for their news.

How Biased Is TV News?

TV news broadcasters like to frame stories so that the audience takes one side over the other. This means that balance and fairness are not part of the broadcast, so the viewer doesn’t get to decide on the issue being presented to them. If every time there’s a story about drug users, the broadcaster frames the story with the well-used phrase “the war on drugs” the audience is reminded of the negative stories associated with that phase. An interviewee who’s on the news show to tell positive stories of a decrease in drug use might find that narrative difficult to sell to an audience who are prepared for the worst through images, phrases and graphics that combine to make them recall the losing war on drugs.

Let’s take a look at the type of coverage that President Trump received when he first stepped into office as this shows the way news is now reported. Rather than reporting the facts, news outlets like to give a lot of opinions which is why the Big Three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC — collectively upset the President so much that he began his much-publicized rant about fake news. The news these outlets were showing wasn’t fake but it was biased to show the President in a negative light with an average of 91% of all coverage comments were negative about the President across all three networks.

In the past, CNN has been subject to claims that their news is biased towards the Democratic Party as statistics generated by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University suggest that Republicans are shown in a bad light three times as often as Democrats. The research shows that 41% of all stories were negative, 46% were neutral and only 14% were positive. There was a time when CNN was jokingly called the Clinton News Network.

Fox has been accused of biased coverage whenever climate change is on the agenda. A study by Media Matters for America found that in 2013, 69% of its guests and 75% of the overall mentions of climate change threw doubt on the subject. This is a subject that should be hotly debated with each side given an equal voice so the study suggests that Fox has an agenda when it comes to reporting climate change.

BBC World News

Although the BBC World News has not been criticized for political bias, the suggestion has been made that its reporting tends to be a little anti-American. If you read reports by American news commentator Bill O’Reilly, you might start to believe that the BBC’s reporting is anti-American, but they’re not biased towards any side of a particular debate so the suggestion is that if you want to get your news from the TV, check out BBC World News.

Bias of Drudge Report

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Unless otherwise noted, this bias rating refers only to online news coverage, not TV, print, or radio content.

The source displays media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

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Drudge Report is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Right.

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.

Drudge Report Rated Lean Right in Aug. 2018 Editorial Review

Drudge Report was given a Lean Right AllSides Media Bias Rating following an Editorial Review in August 2018.

Despite its reputation as being very right/conservative, the AllSides panel noted that the Drudge Report regularly features news stories that are mostly being covered by outlets AllSides rates on the left. The panel found that the Drudge Report often aggregated stories from outlets we rated as Left or Lean Left at the time of review, including The Huffington Post , The Washington Post , NBC , and more. While the Drudge Report did feature news stories and articles from sources on the left, it also featured lots of stories from sources with a Right, Lean Right, or Center AllSides Media Bias Rating™ , including Fox News , The Wall Street Journal , and Breitbart .

In fact, upon first looking at the Drudge Report, at least one member of the AllSides panel initially thought that the Drudge Report might warrant a Lean Left or Center bias rating. This initial instinct is consistent with a 2005 UCLA study which found the Drudge Report has a Lean Left media bias; read more about that study here .

The AllSides editorial panel noted that the Drudge Report often uses sensational stories or language in its headlines and the stories it chooses to feature. Some members of the AllSides panel expressed concerns about the Drudge Report publishing sensationalist or fake news .

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As of May 2023, people have voted on the AllSides Media Bias Rating for Drudge Report. On average, those who disagree with our rating think this source has a Lean Right bias.

As of May 2023, AllSides has medium confidence in our Lean Right rating for Drudge Report. Two bias reviews have affirmed this rating or multiple reviews have returned differing results. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.

Drudge Report is a news aggregation website. Run by Matt Drudge with the help of Joseph Curl and Charles Hurt, the site consists mainly of links to stories from the United States and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events, as well as links to many columnists. Occasionally, Drudge authors new stories himself based on tips. The Report originated in 1996 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch. It was the first news source to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the public after Newsweek decided not to publish the story.

Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Drudge Report.

UCLA Study on Drudge Report Finds Center / Lean Left Bias Due to Aggregation

A 2005 UCLA stud y found that Drudge Report has a center/lean left bias, due to the website aggregating news from other media outlets. The study's lead author was Tim Groseclose, formerly UCLA faculty and currently Adam Smith Chair at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

The study authors wrote (emphasis ours):

Another result, which appears anomalous, is not so anomalous upon further examination. This is the estimate for the Drudge Report, which at 60.4, places it approximately in the middle of our mix of media outlets and approximately as liberal as a typical Southern Democrat, such as John Breaux (D-LA). We should emphasize that this estimate reflects both the news flashes that Matt Drudge reports and the news stories to which his site links on other web sites. In fact, of the entire 311 think-tank citations we found in the Drudge Report, only five came from reports written by Matt Drudge. Thus, for all intents and purposes, our estimate for the DrudgeReport refers only to the articles to which the Report links on other web sites. Although the conventional wisdom often asserts that the Drudge Report is relatively conservative, we believe that the conventional wisdom would also assert that—if confined only to the news stories to which the Report links on other web sites—this set would have a slant approximately equal to the average slant of all media outlets, since, after all, it is comprised of stories from a broad mix of such outlets.

Previous AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ for Drudge Report

AllSides previously rated The Drudge Report as having a Right media bias. We switched its bias rating to Lean Right following the Aug. 2018 Editorial Review .

Third-Party Accusations of Bias

The Drudge Report has been criticized in the past for running stories that were hoaxes, poorly sourced, or unfactual , including a theory that Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen, a hoax about a former prostitute who claimed her son was fathered by Bill Clinton, and a false statement that an undocumented immigrant started the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.

Bias of Drudge Report's Audience

According to a 2014 Pew Research study , the clear majority of Drudge Report's audience (74%) is right-of-center (by comparison, 26% of all Pew panelists were right-of-center). 8% of Drudge Report's audience is left or left-of-center (compared with 38% of all respondents to the survey). Roughly 18% of Drudge Report's audience holds political values consistent with the political center or exhibit mixed values (compared with 36% of all panelists).

Drudge Report Ownership and Funding

Owner: Matt Drudge

Drudge Report – Bias and Credibility

Right-center bias.

These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Right-Center sources.

Overall, we rate the Drudge Report Right-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that more frequently favor the right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to occasionally using poor sources with failed fact checks.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

Founded in 1995 as one of the first independent web-only news sources, The Drudge Report is a politically conservative American news aggregation website run by Matt Drudge. The site consists mainly of links to stories from the United States and international media about politics, entertainment, and current events; it also has links to many columnists. Occasionally, Drudge authors new stories himself, based on tips. The Drudge Report focuses on sensationalized stories with a right-wing bias. Matt Drudge and Charles Hunt edit the website .

In 2016, Matt Drudge was a strong supporter of Donald Trump; however, in 2018, Drudge began distancing himself from Trump and openly criticized him , primarily for Trump’s broken promises on the border wall and immigration.

Due to this change in position, some strong Trump supporters have labeled The Drudge Report as the progressive left. For example, Conservative/Libertarian Trump supporter Tucker Carlson stated that Matt Drudge is “firmly a man of the progressive left,” with the conservative Fox News host comparing the Drudge Report founder to The Daily Beast or “any other woke propaganda outlet posing as a news company.”

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Funded by / Analysis

The Drudge Report is owned by Matt Drudge and is funded through online advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In review, the Drudge Report typically provides hyperlinks to external news sources, in which Matt Drudge writes the lead in headlines. In the past, almost all news stories favored the right and linked to right-leaning sources. Drudge is also frequently linked to conspiracy sources such as ZeroHedge and Infowars and Questionable sources, with very poor fact-check records, such as Breitbart , WND , and the Gateway Pundit .

Today, the Drudge Report typically links to more credible, lower-biased sources such as the Associated Press , Reuters , The Atlantic , and Fox News . However, there are still times when they publish the Questionable Breitbart as well as the Daily Mail .

Drudge Report also publishes columns from a wide range of journalists such as Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Ben Shapiro on the right and Paul Krugman and Maggie Haberman on the left. For the most part, the majority are right-leaning columnists, with many who have poor track records with fact-checkers.

Although the Drudge Report no longer supports Donald Trump, they clearly favor the right based on story selection and the right-leaning columnists that dominate the website. A review of 50 articles revealed that 16 favored the right and 9 favored the left, with the rest falling into a non-political category. In general, the Drudge Report has moderated toward a more Right-Center stance since the last review.

Finally, in the past, the Drudge Report has also promoted numerous debunked conspiracy theories such as The President Obama Birther conspiracy and that Undocumented children are violent criminals . A review of articles over the last two years indicates they have not failed a fact check and do not regularly publish conspiratorial content.

Failed Fact Checks (None recently)

Overall, we rate the Drudge Report Right-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that more frequently favor the right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to occasionally using poor sources with failed fact checks. (7/19/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 9/09/2022)

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Opinion: Is Drudge Report Real Journalism?

By Jennifer Taylor

September 28, 2020

At first glance, a reader can quickly discern the state of things around the country by noting a few of the eye-popping headlines— NFL players booed as racial justice stand sparks outrage , Oregon Scorched , and Advantages of Incumbency Crumbling Away for Trump . The website, unexpectedly still rudimentary, tells readers almost everything they need to know about today. So between the headlines and accompanying images an unfamiliar consumer might conclude this is a newspaper.

But, it’s not. It’s Drudge Report.

This modern-day news delivery platform dubbed a news aggregator was not initially self-described as journalism. Rather, founder Matt Drudge in an address before the National Press Club characterized himself as a “citizen journalist,” a term which implies license to rush to publish stories that mainstream media hesitate to print based on industry best practices. A lot has changed since this scrappy newsletter made its splash on a budding, 1995 internet, including my view. In a transformative era of journalism, I believe Drudge Report qualifies as journalism in its service to the public, exposing readers to news covered by a range of organizations including those not leaning toward a single bias.

Once narrowly focusing on Hollywood and Washington D.C. gossip, the Drudge Report made waves as one the big drivers of internet traffic even before Google or Facebook, but caused a sensation when it broke the bombshell Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, posting insider information that Newsweek killed, according to Pew Research Center . It has since evolved into the dominating news-aggregation website.

But is it journalism? At its outset, I would have said: Heck no.

Leading up to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and as an undergraduate journalism student at San Francisco State University, I would have scoffed at the idea. My biggest criticism as a then 20-something would have been: There’s no actual journalist. There’s no internal newspaper model monitoring content through multiple layers of editors. It doesn’t look anything like the broadsheet-style paper I held in my ink-stained hands. Yet, my news reporting professor back then warned our class: Newspapers will no longer exist. Still, I would have questioned how this website could demonstrate an obligation to the truth by posting other news organizations’ stories? It’s doubtful Drudge Report actually independently verifies all the facts in the dozens of stories it posts daily. Pew’s obligation to the truth tenet of journalism—one of several principles uniting journalists and news media in their definition of journalism as studied by the Washington D.C. think tank—demands that level of integrity.

Drudge Report also has a history of a Republican-leaning, conservative ideology. This alone would have disqualified Drudge Report as journalism for me then. News is supposed to remain as unbiased as possible; another core principle defining journalism, according to Pew research. Openly presenting this slant seems to violate this pillar, skewing the truth.

But as much as I miss it, it’s not the 1990s. A lot has changed in 25 years, including technology, my opinion about what is journalism and now, my thoughts about Drudge Report. While I’ve always subscribed rigidly to Pew’s four principles of journalism, the functionality of Drudge Report clearly informs the public; keeps government, businesses and other centers of power in check; and shines a light on dishonest acts.

Critics also have challenged Drudge Report as a “conservative ideologue,” according to a 2011 New York Times profile , noting that 15 percent of all the traffic at WashingtonPost.com was driven by Drudge Report. The posting of more “balanced” links speaks to another tenet of journalism—making it harder for those in power to abuse their power. As Drudge Report evolved, so have the linked news stories on the site and the opinions of his critics including those of allsides.com , which in 2018 recategorized the aggregator from a “Right” media bias to a “Leaning Right” bias. That progression is what has since swayed my view.

Twenty-five years ago many of us may not have anticipated the demise of newspapers or exactly how journalism would evolve in an internet- and social-media-driven society. But at some point early on, Drudge did. And it resonates because when I last looked, the counter in the lower right corner on the website showed 27,436,293 visits to the website in the past 24 hours and a new eye-popping headline leading the page— San Francisco may soon allow 16-year-olds to vote . Drudge Report has prevailed in a journalism world in the midst of remolding, in ways mainstream news organizations have not.

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Drudge Has Lost His Touch

Technology, the competition, and the times have passed him.

If you visited the Drudge Report on July 1, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing had changed. A BILLION THANKS FOR MAKING JUNE 2009—TOP JUNE IN DRUDGE REPORT’S 14 YEAR HISTORY!? PAGE HIT 675,406,735 VIEWS FROM 129,922,878 VISITS … TRAFFIC ROSE 21% FOR MONTH OVER YEAR AGO blared the headline on the right of the home page. Matt Drudge’s Web site appeared to be chugging along, sinking its teeth into the news cycle just like it used to.

In the aftermath of Bush v. Kerry in 2004, Drudge’s place in journalism had no parallel. Mark Halperin and John Harris, two major machers of the Washington, D.C., press corps, jointly declared: “Matt Drudge rules our world.” Over the course of a decade, Drudge’s no-frills approach—his original delivery method was e-mail, and some of his early content was gleaned from the trash cans at CBS News—had turned his Web site into a world-beater. In 1998, his exposure of a spiked Newsweek piece on Monica Lewinsky nearly knocked down the Clinton presidency, and six years later, by amplifying the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, he helped torpedo John Kerry’s candidacy.

Drudge was the right’s one-man wrecking crew, feared by liberals and respected by bookers and editors around the country.

It’s easy to look back now and laugh at the hyperbolic quality of Harris and Halperin’s claim, but here’s the thing: at the time, it was strikingly close to the truth.

Since then, though, a number of things have changed in ways that have diminished Drudge’s power. The field of online news has welcomed several explosive upstarts, such as Politico and The Huffington Post (Talking Points Memo, which launched in 2000, has also expanded rapidly since 2004). Such sites have built on the promise of Drudge, mixing hard news and chatter into a stew that generates enormous traffic and an ability to shape the conversation. Meanwhile, the Republicans, to whom Drudge hitched his star, have fallen into disarray, and the mood of the country shifted dramatically with the election of Barack Obama and the onset of the financial crisis.

One sign that Drudge’s influence is on the wane is that he goes to such great lengths to deny it. Take his July 1 boast about page views, which sounds impressive—for a moment. Page-view counts aren’t taken seriously when a site automatically and completely refreshes between fifteen and twenty times an hour, as Drudge’s does—a practice that artificially inflates page-view counts. Moreover, unlike unique visitors, page views are not an accurate reflection of engaged eyeballs, which is what advertisers look for above all else. In fact, if you go strictly by the numbers, Drudge is now a middle-of-the-pack niche product. As of this writing, Alexa, Amazon’s Web site counter, lists Drudge as the 704th most popular site on the Internet. (Politico is 2,078 and The Huffington Post is 331.) Compete.com, which tracks Web traffic over time, tells a fuller story: in June of 2008, all three sites had around two million unique visitors. Since then, The Huffington Post’s numbers have soared, reaching 6.7 million in June. Drudge and Politico have both seen their traffic rise slightly, yet remain under the three million mark monthly.

As his competition has grown and become more dynamic, Drudge’s formula has remained essentially unchanged. There are the links to stories that affirm his brand of conservatism, with its focus on the tyranny of taxation, the media’s liberal bias, and the weakness of Democratic politicians, especially on matters of foreign policy. There are the links to stories that reflect his idiosyncratic tastes—JAPAN ROBOTS ON MOON BY 2020! screamed the site on April 3. The Drudge Report is stubbornly invulnerable to user participation—no one blogs, no one comments. The Huffington Post and Politico, meanwhile, host large and loyal armies of readers who interact with one another and with the site’s writers. (And TPM’S readers famously helped the site drive the U.S. attorneys scandal in 2007, for which TPM won a Polk Award.) In the age of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, community building is the name of the game. But not at the Drudge Report, which remains Drudge’s private kingdom.

So much so that while his erstwhile competitors still think of him as useful from time to time, they no longer regard him as a major force. When Politico first launched in early 2007, its top editors—including John Harris—made a concerted effort to get Drudge to link to their stories. Now, according to Politico insiders, those efforts to grab Drudge’s attention have mostly stopped. When The Huffington Post first launched, I heard Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate and a writer for the site, describe it as an effort by the left to challenge Drudge. So I asked Nico Pitney, HuffPo’s national editor, if he considered Drudge a competitor. “I don’t think people at the site think that way at all,” he said, noting that The Huffington Post is trying to do more original reporting, and has hired veteran reporters like Tom Edsall and Dan Froomkin. “That’s just not Drudge’s thing. We’ve got a dozen articles a day and he does, maybe, one article a week.”

Pitney’s indifference to Drudge is telling. After all, around the same time that Drudge was trumpeting Rather meaningless page-view counts, Pitney was captivating the media world with his Twitter-based coverage of the unrest in Iran. Pitney’s approach to that story, which depended on input from readers all over the world, is the sort of thing that Drudge’s site simply lacks the capacity—and apparently the will—to do.

Obama’s inauguration may have been the turning point. Not one story that originated on Drudge’s site since then has had much staying power in the news cycle—and his sense for what drives that cycle seems to have failed him. Immediately following Obama’s Cairo speech, for instance, Drudge focused on the speech’s length: 6,000 WORDS! read the headline. The Cairo speech was a major media event, generating an enormous amount of coverage and commentary. Drudge’s complaint hardly registered. His influence was also conspicuously absent six weeks later, during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. On July 15, the third day of the hearings, Drudge focused on Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama’s appearance at the baseball All-Star game the night before. The Huffington Post, on the other hand, jumped on a vaguely offensive clip of Senator Tom Coburn addressing Sotomayor in the manner of I Love Lucy ’s Ricky Ricardo (Coburn seems to have assumed that Sotomayor needed to be talked to in the voice of a fellow Latin American). Within minutes, the clip was blowing up on cable news and the blogs. It was exactly the sort of contrived news story that used to be Drudge’s bread and butter. But because it relied on obsessing over and disseminating an instantly edited news clip—which isn’t what Drudge does—and because it showed a Republican senator to be a buffoon, HuffPo beat him at his own game.

It could simply be that with the GOP out of power, Drudge’s star has dimmed as well. But his decline feels more fundamental. Drudge is increasingly out of step with the times and the nation. Brian Williams of NBC once referred to Drudge’s site as “America’s bulletin board,” but these days Drudge seems an unlikely host. An academic study, released in July by Kalev Leetaru of the University of Illinois, found that Drudge’s site was less active than normal during the crucial early months of the Iraq war. That was a different time and different set of issues, but it suggests an interesting parallel to the Drudge Report’s current fecklessness. Drudge’s influence, and his role in the media landscape, seems to shrink when the stakes are high and the stories complex. Drudge has never run a tabloid; his goal isn’t to be an alluring distraction (think Gawker). Rather, he purposely takes an unserious attitude toward politics. But at the moment, politics is very serious and the consequences dire.

It would probably be too much to expect Drudge to grapple seriously with the ways in which George W. Bush’s administration damaged conservatism, but even the civil war that has engulfed the GOP since Bush left office has, for he most part, been ignored by Drudge. Instead, he reheats old conservative arguments, as if the Bush presidency had never happened. Take his undying complaints about “liberal media bias.” This past June, Drudge worked himself into a lather when ABC News nestled inside the Obama White House to shoot an evening special. In Drudge’s world, the special was another example of the too-close-for-comfort relationship between the White House and the press tasked with covering it. While it is an issue worth raising, the ABC special barely registered on the national radar. When it aired, it was the lowest-rated network program of the night. Drudge had directed his ire against a target no one much cared about.

To the extent there has been a meaningful critique of Obama from the right, it has come from a smattering of other Web sites, like Instapundit and Michelle Malkin, as well as from Rush Limbaugh. Significantly, all three engage with their audience in some way. Drudge’s doesn’t reply to e-mail. There is a blank space on his Web site, through which you can submit news tips. (I’ve tried to get in touch with him this way, to no avail.)

Meanwhile, a new right, nascent and based online, has begun to emerge. Pajamas Media has launched an ambitious television project, predicated on the kind of technological advancements that Drudge has shunned. And the struggle over the future of American conservatism is playing out on sites like David Frum’s New Majority. Even National Review , an outpost for traditional conservatives, recently hired the iconoclastic Reihan Salam in an effort to adapt. Thus far, the relationship between this new right and Drudge might best be understood as one of missed opportunity. The “Tea Party” protests that broke out in April took aim at two of Drudge’s favorite targets: the Obama administration and the ballooning federal deficit. Granted, Drudge was the protestors’ loyal cheerleader, turning their every move into a headline on his site. But being a cheerleader means being on the sidelines—precisely where Drudge now finds himself.

“Drudge gets so worked up every day about such petty stuff,” one New York newspaper editor told me. “That’s appropriate for carnival/campaign season, but it doesn’t as effectively fit the mood in a country that is serious about sober governing.” A nation beset by financial crisis at home and besieged around the world, in other words, has more on its mind than the length of a presidential speech or an unwatched ABC special, let alone the threat of Japanese robots. Yet it’s worth noting that this editor declined to put his comments on the record. Mark Halperin and John Harris, once among Drudge’s most prominent validators, also chose not to comment for this piece. The implication is clear: down the road, Matt Drudge could re-emerge. “He’s on a bit of a sabbatical,” explained a friend of Drudge’s. “He doesn’t care” that his influence isn’t what it used to be.

Perhaps. But the short- or long-term prospects of the Drudge Report recapturing its place at the center of our political media are bleak. Even if Drudge were to hire a blogger, open a comments section, and adopt a more substantive approach to news, it’s unlikely that he’d ever match his previous level of influence. Drudge is in part a victim of his own success. He spawned imitators and emulators, who in turn have only further splintered the media world. If there is an agenda to be set, no one outlet or editor has the power to set it. It’s simply too rapid and unknowable a thing to harness. While The Fix, put together by Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post , and Playbook, put together by Politico’s Mike Allen, are often referred to as Drudge’s heirs, neither has the influence that Drudge once had, nor do they display the kind of naked ideological bias that was Drudge’s hallmark. Of course, their existence is a testament to Drudge’s legacy as a trailblazer in the field of Internet newsgathering and gossip mongering. But increasingly, a legacy is all the Drudge Report has to offer.

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The data… clitheroe fc shawbridge https://nypost.com/2020/10/30/drudge-report-traffic-plunges-as-content-turns-against-trump/ Instapundit » Blog Archive » DON SURBER ON CHICAGO: … Witryna7 godz. temu · Biased BBC BlogCritics Bluey Blog Neal Boortz Brain Terminal Breitbart.com David Corn The Corner Cox and Forkum Jules Crittenden Daily Howler … https://instapundit.com/579414/ Drudge Report - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna11 kwi 2023 · The Drudge Report focuses on sensationalized stories with a right-wing bias. Matt Drudge and Charles Hunt edit the website. In 2016, Matt Drudge was … clitheroe everyman theatre https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drudge-report/ Chapter 10 Sampling Methods & Surveys STA 135 Notes (Murray … WitrynaA major advantage of simple random sampling is that instead of allowing participants to select (or not select) themselves, such as in the Literary Digest or Drudge Report examples, impersonal chance determines who is chosen, removing selection bias. One disadvantage is if a sampling frame is flawed or unavailable. clitheroe fatface https://bookdown.org/cmecklin/STA_135_Spring_2023/sampling-methods-surveys.html Drudge Report Media Bias AllSides Witryna14 cze 2012 · Bias of Drudge Report's Audience. According to a 2014 Pew Research study, the clear majority of Drudge Report's audience (74%) is right-of-center (by … https://www.allsides.com/news-source/drudge-report With Drudge Report dead, here are four sites every patriot needs … Witryna30 kwi 2021 · It’s hard to believe that five years ago, the Drudge Report was a major player in conservative media. Since whatever happened to Matt Drudge happened, the site has been a cesspool of mainstream media propaganda and leftist talking points. ... Conservative Playlist: I may be biased since one of my proteges built it. But there’s … clitheroe fencing https://noqreport.com/2021/04/30/with-drudge-report-dead-here-are-four-sites-every-patriot-needs-to-check-out/ How trustworthy is Drudge report? : r/politics WitrynaPolitics. It's not trustworthy. It's notoriously Right-leaning and prone to sensationalism and hyperbole when it comes to slagging the Left. Go to The New York Times for reliable … https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bty7l/how_trustworthy_is_drudge_report/ The Fall of Matt Drudge and The Drudge Report Witryna4 mar 2021 · Matt Drudge and his web site The Drudge Report were paramount in countering media disinformation while Trump was running for office in 2016. This helped his web site traffic hit record high traffic levels. Since then it has fallen over 45% and is steadily shedding viewers. Traffic to the site has fallen by more than 45% from the … clitheroe eye test https://thenhindependent.com/2021/03/04/the-fall-of-matt-drudge-and-the-drudge-report/ Drudge Retort - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna12 kwi 2023 · Overall, we rate the Drudge Retort Left Biased based on the use of mostly left or left-center sources. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due … clitheroe festival https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drudge-retort/ Drudge Report - WikiMili, The Best Wikipedia Reader Witryna11 gru 2022 · The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, [4] and run with the help of Charles Hurt [2] and Daniel Halper. [5] The site was generally regarded as a conservative [6] [7] [8] publication, though its ownership and political leanings have been questioned … https://wikimili.com/en/Drudge_Report Opinion: Is Drudge Report Real Journalism? - The Click WitrynaDrudge Report also has a history of a Republican-leaning, conservative ideology. This alone would have disqualified Drudge Report as journalism for me then. News is … https://theclick.news/essay-is-drudge-report-real-journalism/ The Drudge Report Is Officially Dead… - Weasel Zippers Witryna15 lut 2022 · Shortly before Drudge dropped his bomb, in an exquisite self-indictment of media bias and protectiveness of Democrats in power, Newsweek, then a half … clitheroe fc tickets https://www.weaselzippers.us/479288-the-drudge-report-is-officially-dead/ Reporting biases - Catalog of Bias WitrynaReporting biases is an umbrella term that covers a range of different types of biases. It is described as the most significant form of scientific misconduct ( Al-Marzouki et al. 2005 ). Reporting biases have been recognised for hundreds of years, dating back to the 17th century ( Dickersin & Chambers, 2010 ). Since then, various definitions of ... https://catalogofbias.org/biases/reporting-biases/ Donald Trump Jr. Thinks His News App Will “Disrupt” Google and … Witryna22 mar 2022 · Two of the conservative movement’s favorite claims are that the media is biased against it and that conservative voices are constantly being censored. ... [the] Drudge [Report] disrupted web ... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/donald-trump-jr-news-app-mxm Witryna19 kwi 2020 · The Drudge Report has long been a go-to publication for news highlights on the latest around the world. Matt Drudge was a favorite of conservatives with his … clitheroe fair https://100percentfedup.com/the-drudge-report-moves-left-and-goes-anti-trump-go-to-pro-trump-news-instead/ Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump? Witryna29 sty 2020 · Trump’s main rival, Ted Cruz, lashed out at Drudge for his apparent bias, calling the Drudge Report “an attack site for the Donald Trump campaign.” Carl Bernstein called Drudge’s backing “an influence unequaled” in Trump’s ascent to the GOP nomination. Bob Sutton, a self-described “foot soldier” in the Trump movement … bobu0027s big boy blue cheese dressing nutrition https://www.cjr.org/politics/drudge-report-trump.php Chapter 2 HW: Samples, Good and Bad Flashcards Quizlet Witryna(b) A poll given over Twitter is a voluntary response sample and is likely to be biased. Beginning in 2017, there was a considerable interest in the Special Counsel investigation, conducted by Robert Mueller, of possible Russian … clitheroe famous people https://quizlet.com/620191920/chapter-2-hw-samples-good-and-bad-flash-cards/ Drudge Report, a Trump Ally in 2016, Isn Witryna30 wrz 2020 · Sept. 30, 2020. Something has changed at Drudge Report, the influential site known for its tabloid-poetry headlines and conservative take on the news, and don’t think the president hasn’t ... bobu0027s big boy blue cheese https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/media/drudge-report-trump-coverage.html Tucker guest exposes what made Matt Drudge - Witryna25 lip 2020 · Fox News host Tucker Carlson said during his show on Friday that once-conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge of “The Drudge Report” is “now firmly a … https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/25/tucker-guest-exposes-what-made-matt-drudge-now-firmly-a-man-of-the-left-turn-so-drastically-951347/ DNyuz - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna9 kwi 2023 · Since November 2019, the Drudge Report has been linking to this website presumably to bypass paywalls on major news sources such as the New York Times. … https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dnyuz/ The Drudge Report Has Been Linking To This Armenian Guy Witryna27 maj 2020 · The Drudge Report began linking to dnyuz.com as early as November 2019, according to data from SEMRush, a search analytics tool. The links have been … bobu0027s big boy chili spaghetti copycat recipe https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/drudge-report-links-site-plagiarizes-stories Is the drudge report bias even though it only re-post links to ... - Quora WitrynaYes, the Drudge Report is biased. It's a news aggregator, which means it simply rounds up links to stories all in one convenient location. The owner, Matthew Drudge, occasionally writes a story himself. So why is it biased? Look at the stories and websites it … clitheroe farm shop https://www.quora.com/Is-the-drudge-report-bias-even-though-it-only-re-post-links-to-news-stories-from-various-news-organizations DNyuz - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna9 kwi 2023 · Overall, we rate DNyuz right-center biased and Questionable due to blatant plagiarism, the use of poor sources, and a complete lack of transparency. Detailed Report Reasoning: Plagiarism, Poor Sourcing, Lack of Transparency Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: Armenia Press Freedom Rank: … clitheroe facebook https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dnyuz/ Biden Budget Extends His Silent War On The Middle Class Witryna12 kwi 2023 · Joe Biden’s recent budget for the fiscal year 2024 comes with a glaring contradiction hiding in plain sight. To wit, the policies pursued by “Middle-Class Joe” — a sobriquet that The Washington Post notes Biden bestowed upon himself — will only work to accelerate the demise of the working classes. clitheroe fast food https://nworeport.me/biden-budget-extends-his-silent-war-on-the-middle-class/ Drudge Report - Wikipedia The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, and run with the help of Charles Hurt and Daniel Halper. The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its ownership and political leanings have been questioned … Zobacz więcej The Drudge Report started in 1995 as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Matt Drudge began the email-based newsletter from an apartment in Hollywood, California, using his connections … Zobacz więcej The Drudge Report site consists mainly of selected hyperlinks to news websites all over the world, each link carrying a headline written by Drudge or his editors. The linked … Zobacz więcej Matt Drudge has said that he is a conservative, but "more of a populist". Some had regarded the Drudge Report as conservative in tone, and it has been referred to in … Zobacz więcej In 2006, Mark Halperin wrote that "Drudge's coverage affects the media's political coverage", effectively steering it towards what Halperin … Zobacz więcej The site's design has seen few changes since its debut in 1997. Drudge has experimented with temporary, relatively minor design tweaks, including using all black-and-white pictures for a period in August 2017 and using colored text for holidays … Zobacz więcej Matt Drudge's business entity in Florida is a privately owned limited liability company called Digital, LLC. Drudge applied for and was granted a U.S. Trademark registration for the phrase "Drudge Report" on January 15, 2019, filed on May 15, 2018. The registration … Zobacz więcej Monica Lewinsky scandal The Drudge Report originally attained prominence when it was the first to report what came to … Zobacz więcej bobu0027s big boy austin powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudge_Report Biased? Sure. Lying, no. - Midwest Political Science Association Witryna5 kwi 2021 · Accusations that the news media are biased are now so common as to become cliché. Undoubtedly, the media are biased. In fact, bias is inevitable in human decision making. ... Fox News (again, the news portion only, not commentary), the Drudge Report and ABC News were the most centrist. The other outlets relied … https://www.mpsanet.org/biased-sure-lying-no-2/ Top 26 Alternatives to Drudge Report Ranked 3 Ways in Jan 2022 WitrynaThe Drudge Report was once an iconic news aggregator loved by conservatives and independents. It lost that love in 2020 and 2021 with it’s turn to the political left. Many … clitheroe fc t https://cinternet.org/2022/jan/drudge-report Instapundit » Blog Archive » I WANT THEM TO DO OLD-STYLE … Witryna10 godz. temu · I WANT THEM TO DO OLD-STYLE JAMES BOND AS A MALE FANTASY: Young actors don’t have the ‘experience’ to play James Bond: casting … bobu0027s big boy blue cheese dressing https://instapundit.com/579364/ Fox News’ planned 24-hour weather channel has climate experts … Witryna10 lip 2021 · The channel, based in New York City, will be advertiser-funded, and stream 24 hours a day. Sharri Berg, formerly the executive vice-president of news operations for the Fox News channel, will ... bobu0027s big boy chili spaghetti https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/10/fox-news-weather-channel-climate-crisis Why is Matt Drudge biased against President Trump? - Quora WitrynaAnswer (1 of 9): Why is Don the Con foursquare against anyone who doesn’t kiss his capacious ass? I don’t care what liars think about anything, and that covers both subjects of this question. And congrats to Matt for having his biased aggregator site climb out of “Questionable” (i.e. tinfoil ha... https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Matt-Drudge-biased-against-President-Trump Raw Story - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna10 kwi 2023 · They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading … bobu0027s big boy blue cheese dressing purchase https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-story/ Instapundit » Blog Archive » DAN SNYDER REACHES DEAL TO … Witryna1 dzień temu · DAN SNYDER REACHES DEAL TO SELL THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS FOR BILLIONS: Report. “Dan Snyder’s tenure with the Washington Commanders appears to be over after nearly 30 years. Snyder agreed to sell the Commanders to a group led by Josh Harris, the co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers … bobu0027s big boy burger recipe https://instapundit.com/579281/ 5 Best Drudge Report Alternatives [Must Read 2023] - ViralTalky WitrynaDrudge Report Alternatives: Getting updated on the recent news and highlights of the day can be a little stressful as not all news aggregators are sincere. ... Bias: the bias report Bongino Report reported a Far-right rating which also comes with mixed factual reporting. It simply means the website is not doing sincere work as it should. https://viraltalky.com/drudge-report-alternatives/ Drudge Report traffic plunges as content turns against Trump Witryna30 paź 2020 · The Drudge Report posted a 45 percent decline in web traffic in September as the site alienated its core readers by turning against President Trump … https://nypost.com/2020/10/30/drudge-report-traffic-plunges-as-content-turns-against-trump/ Revolver.News - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna11 kwi 2023 · In general, Revolver.News reports news from a strong right-leaning perspective and lacks credibility due to a complete lack of transparency. Failed Fact … https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/revolver-news/ Here Are the 5 Most Liberal and Conservative Media Twitter … WitrynaWe've culled the five most left-leaning and right-leaning media figures from the study. But first, here's who missed the list: The O'Reilly Factor, Ann Coulter, and Drudge Report were not far ... https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-political-leanings-conservative-liberal-oreilly-msnbc-katie-couric-sean-hannity-2011-3 DRUDGE REPORT 2024® Witrynavisits to drudge 4/13/2023 22,784,861 past 24 hours 655,458,638 past 31 days 8,132,431,073 past year reference desk. email: [email protected] be … https://drudgereport.com/ How credible is The Drudge Report? - Quora WitrynaAnswer (1 of 6): It is not credible. > In review, the Drudge Report typically provides hyperlinks to external news sources, in which Matt Drudge or Charles Hunt write the … bobu0027s big boy breakfast buffet https://www.quora.com/How-credible-is-The-Drudge-Report Drudge Report Walloped as Anti-Trump Hatred Takes Devastating … Witryna5 gru 2020 · The Drudge Report, once a destination for those seeking a daily dose of factual news, truth and conservative commentary, has reportedly seen its web traffic … bobu0027s big boy broiler downey https://www.westernjournal.com/drudge-report-walloped-anti-trump-hatred-takes-devastating-toll/ Drudge Retort - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna12 kwi 2023 · Bias Rating: LEFT Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY History. Founded in 1998, The Drudge Retort was created as a left-leaning parody of the Drudge Report.. The site was … https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drudge-retort/ American Drudge Report Breaking News Headlines Today WitrynaSee all of American Drudge Report news coverage in one place. Discover how American Drudge Report’s media bias informs their coverage and compare with … clitheroe fc wiki https://ground.news/interest/american-drudge-report Government Promises to Stop Lying Because of Drudge Report … Witryna28 lip 2013 · Drudge Report quote around 14:00. “..we cannot hide our bad news stories. Bad news gets out one way or the other and we must come to terms with telling bad stories as well as the good,” the secretary of defense for public affairs, George Little, stated. “When bad things happen, the American people should hear it from us, not as … https://nworeport.me/government-promises-to-stop-lying-because-of-drudge-report-spotlight/ PolitiFact Drudge Report WitrynaThe Drudge Report is a news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge. It is often considered conservative. Drudge Report's Website Scorecard True 0% 0 Checks … bobu0027s big boy bleu cheese dressing https://www.politifact.com/personalities/drudge-report/ Instapundit » Blog Archive » OH, YOU HAVE NO IDEA: John … Witryna2 dni temu · OH, YOU HAVE NO IDEA: John Hinderaker: How Low Can Blue Cities Sink? “Americans are fleeing blue states, and especially blue cities, in historic numbers. Can things possibly get worse? They can, indeed they can.” It’s fascinating and depressing to me to see so much decay resulting from the failure to do things that, … clitheroe farmers market https://instapundit.com/579040/ Media bias - Wikipedia WitrynaMedia bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening of the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article.The … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias Conservative News Sources — Lists of the Best - Cinternet.org... WitrynaNewsmax was founded to point out liberal bias and improprieties in the media that are forced upon the American people, and they report true news. They also seek to extol men and women who show conservative virtues. 2) One America News Network: oann.com/wheretowatch/ https://cinternet.org/2023/conservative-news-sources/ Populist Press - Media Bias/Fact Check Witryna8 kwi 2023 · Analysis / Bias. In review, Populist Press is an imposter website that attempts to look and behave like the Drudge Report, with a much stronger … bob\u0027s big boy blue cheese dressing https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/populist-press/ Instapundit » Blog Archive » CRIME: Retail Theft Often Preplanned … Witryna7 godz. temu · CRIME: Retail Theft Often Preplanned By Complex Criminal Networks, New Report Asserts. https://instapundit.com/579325/ Conservative News Sources — Lists of the Best - Cinternet.org... Witryna10) Breitbart News Bitchute YT. “ Breitbart News is a major conservative news source founded by Andrew Breitbart. Presently, it is a conservative media juggernaut … https://cinternet.org/2023/conservative-news-sources/ The Drudge Report Is Officially Dead… - Weasel Zippers Witryna15 lut 2022 · Shortly before Drudge dropped his bomb, in an exquisite self-indictment of media bias and protectiveness of Democrats in power, Newsweek, then a half-century-old journalistic institution whose huge Washington bureau was near the top of a high rise on Pennsylvania Avenue a half block from the White House, killed its exclusive story … https://www.weaselzippers.us/479288-the-drudge-report-is-officially-dead/

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What Are Confirmation Bias Examples?
Examples of confirmation bias are found in news reports, academic research and interpersonal relations. For example, a journalist demonstrates confirmation bias when she interviews only those experts who support her story’s angle.
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A positive bias is a term in sociology that indicates feelings toward a subject that influence its positive treatment. This can be seen in a number of different forms, and while it may be innocent enough in most cases, it can represent a le...
Understanding Bias in News Media
If you want unbiased news, there’s only one TV news channel that will deliver that. Most news channels have an agenda based on their commercial relationships. TV news broadcasters like to frame stories so that the audience takes one side ov...
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Quora WitrynaYes, the Drudge Report is biased.