Number of partisan news sites roughly equals those doing actual, legitimate journalism.
  • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
    8•3 months ago

    It’d be interesting to see a breakdown of the proportion of those sites that are R vs those that are D. My guess (based on my admittedly pretty prejudiced views re. conservatives) would be that the majority is Republican-leaning

    • @squirrelOPMEnglish
      8•3 months ago

      The way I read the article, it does not give a precise answer, but it provides a strong hint in two different paragraph:

      NewsGuard, which rates the quality and trustworthiness of news sites, has identified 1,197 pink slime sites operating in the US as of April 1…
      […]
      Of the pink slime outlets identified by researchers, the largest is the conservative-leaning Metric Media, which consists of about 1,000 local titles, according to the website for its parent company.

      So yeah, if the researchers identified some ~1200 sites and one right-wing news network claims to operate 1000 all on its own, then there has to be a very obvious dominance of right-wing “pink slime” news outlets.

        • @squirrelOPMEnglish
          5•3 months ago

          Honestly, if you had not asked the question, I would not have gone back and checked. The writers could definitely had made this more obvious, but I assume the Financial Times did not want to make the direct connection there themselves.