So we have an OP based on a story from townhall.
Townhall
Analysis / Bias
In review, Townhall almost exclusively publishes news articles that favors conservatives and utilizes strongly loaded language such as this:
Shove It, House Democrats: Another Trump-Russia Story Blows Up. This story is sourced to the left leaning
Axios and right leaning
Fox News. In another article with loaded language, by Rush Limbaugh’s brother David:
Abortion Extremism Exposing Left’s Moral Contradictions, there is not a single source listed to support Mr. Limbaugh’s claims.
In general, Townhall presents story selection that almost always favors the right and uses negative wording to describe the left. There is little balance in story presentation with all information favoring the right without presenting a left perspective or counter argument. The opinion columnists associated with Townhall have poor fact check records such as
Michelle Malkin,
Ann Coulter and
Ben Shapiro. Straight news reporting is generally sourced properly and factual, though worded to favor the right.
A factual search reveals a few failed fact checks, such as
this and
this.
Overall, we rate Townhall Right Biased based on story selection that always favors the right and denigrates the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the use of columnists that have poor fact check records.
Townhall - Media Bias/Fact Check
Fake news.