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BIG âBOMBSHELLâ IS JUST LAME HEARSAY: Whistleblower âdidnât have direct knowledge of the communicationsâ between Trump and Ukraine.
Washington Examiner
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RIGHT BIAS
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Right Bias sources.
Washington Examiner - Media Bias/Fact Check
- Overall, we rate the Washington Examiner Right Biased based on editorial positions that almost exclusively favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to several failed fact checks.
By the way your "Media Bias" report was completed by D. Van Zandt, one of the top 9 Fakest Fake-News Checkers.
âTrust us,â they say.
âWeâll help you navigate Facebook and filter out the fake news stories,â they promise.
But just who are these self-appointed gatekeepers who claim to be the ultimate arbiters of what is or is not âfake newsâ?
- A gamer.
- A leftist, Trump-hating, feminist professor who specializes in âfat studies.â
- A sex-and-fetish blogger.
- A health-industry worker.
- Organizations with billionaire Democratic Party activists and donors.
- And another guy who went to extreme lengths to conceal his identity.
The websites often show an obvious bias against conservative-leaning outlets. And many fail to include clear explanations of the criteria they use for determining whether a news site is legitimate. Other âexpertsâ offer little or no biographical information establishing their qualifications for making judgments about journalism quality.
2. Media Bias Fact Check
MediaBIasFactCheck.com describes itself as âthe most comprehensive media bias resource in the Internet.â The site is owned by Dave Van Zandt from North Carolina, who offers no biographical information about himself aside from the following: âDave has been freelancing for 25+ years for a variety of print and web mediums (sic), with a focus on media bias and the role of media in politics. Dave is a registered Non-Affiliated voter who values evidence based reportingâ and, âDave Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.â
I was unable to locate a single article with Van Zandtâs byline. Ironically, the âfact checkerâ fails to establish his own credibility by disclosing his qualifications and training in evaluating news sources.
Asked for information concerning his expertise in the field of journalism and evaluating news sources, Van Zandt said: âI am not a journalist and just a person who is interested in how media bias impacts politics. You will find zero claims of expertise on the website.â
Concerning his purported â25+ yearsâ of experience writing for print and web media, he said: âI am not sure why the 25+ years is still on the website. That was removed a year ago when I first started the website. All of the writing I did was small print news zines from the â90s. I felt that what I wrote in the â90s is not related to what I am doing today so I removed it. Again, I am not a journalist. I simply have a background in communications and more importantly science where I learned to value evidence over all else. Through this I also became interested in research of all kinds, especially media bias, which is difficult to measure and is subjective to a degree.â
He was asked: Were your evaluations reviewed by any experts in the industry?
âI canât say they have,â Van Zandt replied. âThough the right-of-center Atlantic Council is using our data for a project they are working on.â
Van Zandt says he uses âthree volunteersâ to âresearch and assist in fact checking.â However, he adds that he doesnât pay them for their services.
Van Zandt lists on his âRight Biasâ page, alongside news organizations such as Fox News, the Drudge Report, the Washington Free Beacon, the Daily Wire, the Blaze, Breitbart, Red State, Project Veritas, PJ Media, National Review, Daily Caller and others.
âThese media sources are highly biased toward conservative causes,â Van Zandt writes. âThey utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Sources in this category may be untrustworthy.â
He links to Snopes.com and PolitiFact.com, websites that have their own questionable reputations and formulas as so-called âfact checkers.â
Van Zandt claims he uses a âstrict methodologyâ in determining which news sources are credible, but his website offers vague and typo-ridden explanations of his criteria, such as the following:
Asked if his own political leanings influence his evaluations, Van Zandt said: âSure it is possible. However, our methodology is designed to eliminate most of that. We also have a team of 4 researchers with different political leanings so that we can further reduce researcher bias.â
Bill Palmer of the website Daily News Bin accused Van Zandt of retaliating when the Daily News Bin contacted him about his rating. Palmer wrote:
ât turns out Van Zandt has a vindictive streak. After one hapless social media user tried to use his phony âMedia Bias Fact Checkâ site to dispute a thoroughly sourced article from this site, Daily News Bin, we made the mistake of contacting Van Zandt and asking him to take down his ridiculous âratingâ â which consisted of nothing more than hearsay such as âhas been accused of being satire.â Really? When? By whom? None of those facts seem to matter to the guy running this âMedia Bias Fact Checkâ scam.
âBut instead of acknowledging that heâd been caught in the act, Van Zandt retaliated against Daily News Bin by changing his rating to something more sinister. He also added a link to a similar phony security company called World of Trust, which generates its ratings by allowing random anonymous individuals to post whatever bizarre conspiracy theories they want, and then letting these loons vote on whether that news site is ârealâ or not. These scam sites are now trying to use each other for cover, in order to back up the false and unsubstantiated âratingsâ they semi-randomly assign respected news outlets. âŚ
ââMedia Bias Fact Checkâ is truly just one guy making misleading claims about news outlets while failing to back them up with anything, while maliciously changing the ratings to punish any news outlets that try to expose the invalidity of what heâs doing.â
But Van Zandt accused Palmer of threatening him, and he said MediaBiasFactCheck welcomes criticism. If evidence is provided, he said, the site will correct its errors.
âBottom line is, we are not trying to be something we are not,â he said. âWe have disclaimers on every page of the website indicating that our method is not scientifically proven and that there is [sic] subjective judgments being used as it is unavoidable with determining bias.â
Exposing The 9 Fakest Fake-News Checkers
So your "fact checker" has some issues. but never mind all that. Simply select a source you are okay with linking too, and share with us what they say this Leaker of a conversation between two national leaders is claiming. Initially it was claimed that Trump made threats like Joe Biden did, though with paltry sums compared to $Billion Dollar Bounty Biden, and very quickly I saw that there was backing away from that claim.