Current Events > Fox News Rated as Accurate and Trustworthy Source of News

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A News rating service has deemed Fox News to be a credible healthy source of information and this has many on the left furious. How can Fox News be REAL news they ask. Newsguard uses 9 criteria to weigh a news service and found Fox to be credible and reliable but obviously the issue is so partisan that people refuse to believe it. Fox News is the number 1 network AND has been rated credible, so what does this mean for the political dive and upcoming election?

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/newsguard-considers-fox-news-a-healthy-part-of-your-news-diet/

As soon as NewsGuard the Steve Brill/Gordon Crovitz startup that aims to rate every significant news and news site as reliable or not was first announced, the questions began: What will it say about Fox News?

I love the idea of #NewsGuard. Rating real and fake news sites to empower readers with information to decide for themselves where they get their news. I'm also curious how @FoxNews will rate. #RealNews #FakeNews https://t.co/fQ0L2Zuuc3

Freak'n Einstein (@Einsteinin209) March 6, 2018

Will they include Fox News? that alone would keep them busy. NewsGuard, new venture to combat 'fake news' https://t.co/3ZfpkaGL0d via @physorg_com

Sylvan the Superpup (@sentient_deist) March 6, 2018

Any chance you can slap a rating on Fox News similar to the ones on cigarette packs?

Bob Lynch (@LynchpinL) June 8, 2018

Thank you for taking the fake out of #FakeNews. Your rating service is needed by news editors who routinely amplify dezinformatsiya in an effort to present both sides of any argument even though the other side is RT, Breitbart, Stone Cold Truth, FOX https://t.co/oIIGse9AXk. pic.twitter.com/MbvCQWWmKp

American RESISTANCE (@KeepLadyWarm) March 7, 2018

Brill and Crovitz Announce Launch of NewsGuard to Fight Fake News https://t.co/xOXU481StE solution to the last 3 years of BS news, scared senators & congressmen and advertisers determining what is true or not (think FOX News)? Watch!

christine still (@christinestil19) March 16, 2018

Or as our own Ken Doctor put it in March, writing about the green-for-good, red-for-bad color system the company uses:

NewsGuard could be a simple, elegant solution to both the honest hand-wringing and the overwrought blather about fake news. But we still have to ask the question that NewsGuard wont answer until it has to: What color is Fox News?

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!
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Foxes are red though.

So is Fox lying about their name, or is science the one that's wrong?
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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 speculativemisleading), 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 articlessensational headlines), Shareblue (charged, misleading language), and Daily Kos (often add[s] commentary and exaggeration).

More on them below, but first back to Fox News.

NewsGuard dings Fox News on 3 of the 9 factors on which it rates news sites, saying it has issues with regularly correcting its errors, disclosing its ownership and financing, and revealing whos in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest. On the other 6 factors not publishing false content repeatedly, gathering and publishing information responsibly, avoiding deceptive headlines, differentiating news and opinion responsibly, clearly labeling advertising, and providing information about reporters Fox News passes.
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Fox just gets hate because they're right leaning. they're no worse than CNN.
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Funbazooka posted...

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.

LOL.

Really shows how trustworthy this NewsGuard organization is. It's not.
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With the release of NewsGuards tool, I spent a couple hours furiously navigating the news/news web, looking for what ratings work had already been completed. And most of it seemed perfectly well done if, again, sometimes too caught up in technicalities to capture a sites zeitgeist.

Among the green sites I saw: national newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Guardian); network news operations (ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, PBS Newshour, BBC News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR); mainstream magazines (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, Forbes, National Geographic); all the major metro newspapers I checked; and major digital natives (BuzzFeed News, Deadspin, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Vox, The Daily Beast, Quartz, The Verge).

Also green were the majority of politics sites I saw, even those with a pronounced slant: leaning left, sites like Salon, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, Mic, The Daily Beast, and Media Matters; leaning right, Daily Caller, Daily Wire, IJR, The Daily Signal, The Federalist, Townhall, and the Washington Examiner. (Im sure plenty of people would have arguments against several of those sites greenness.)

So whats red? A few liberal sites: Shareblue, Bipartisan Reports, Palmer Report, and (surprisingly to me, at least) Daily Kos. (NewsGuards complaints there are mostly about the work of non-staff contributors to the site.) What seems, from my searching, to be a somewhat larger number of conservative sites: Breitbart, RushLimbaugh.com, Hannity, The Blaze, Infowars, Conservative Tribune, Right Wing News. (As far as I can tell, NewsGuard doesnt provide a centralized list of sites its reviewed, so there are no doubt lots of sites Ive missed.) Plus propaganda sites (RT, Sputnik), tabloids (National Enquirer), bogus health sites (Natural News), conspiracy sites (Infowars), and what could fairly be labeled as fake news sites (Your News Wire, 100PercentFedUp).
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Fuckin lol @ all of this
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So CNN and HuffPo are real news.

Take that, liberals.

Oh wait.
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newsguard seems to have failed spectacularly.
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The Daily Caller... Trustworthy? What the fuck?

Salon?! Trustworthy?

This site is shit

Fox leans right and doesnt cover all stories but when they do straight news like Shep Smith they arent awful the problem is 95% of their programming isn't news its pundits and opinions.

Not that this makes newsguard legit. I don't know enough about it to judge it.

That's actually interesting. Sensationalizing fox coming up green is silly, but the rest of the greens I would expect if fox is green and all the red ones are either to be expected or I don't even know anything about. You should look up CNS news. It's a far-right christian extremist site.
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Also LMAO at this point

Funbazooka posted...

What seems, from my searching, to be a somewhat larger number of conservative sites:

So, what you're saying is there's more fake news from the right than left?

Fox news has nothing to do with the real world: They are reporting from some imaginary fake world.

So it lists fox in general as accurate but hannity, the highest rated program on fox, as fake?

Seems rather silly imo.
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lilORANG posted...

So it lists fox in general as accurate but hannity, the highest rated program on fox, as fake?

Seems rather silly imo.

The article says that the rating is for foxnews.com, not for the channel's broadcast. It lists Hannity's website as being cautionary.
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lilORANG posted...

So it lists fox in general as accurate but hannity, the highest rated program on fox, as fake?

Seems rather silly imo.

Only americans would consitter Fox News as objective.
They are ruin the whole idea of the free press.