It’s hard to take leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard seriously when it gave Fox News a failing grade while complimenting BuzzFeed News’s notoriously phony reporting with a perfect rating.
BuzzFeed News, a leftist news outlet, promoted the Steele dossier. This was used to justify a lengthy federal investigation into former President Donald Trump. The dossier remains on BuzzFeed News’s website, but NewsGuard continues to give BuzzFeed a perfect 100/100 score.
To put it into perspective, NewsGuard just slapped Fox News’s score from a green-shield 69.5/100 rating in December down to a red-shield rating of 57/100 last month for supposedly failing “to adhere to several basic journalistic standards.”
One of NewsGuard’s contentions with Fox is that the news outlet allegedly fails to handle “the difference between news and opinion responsibly.” Apparently, NewsGuard couldn’t correctly discern the difference, either. A “Corrections” note at the bottom of its “nutrition label” scorecard for Fox News admitted that an earlier version falsely “referred to Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham as anchors [who cover the news]Instead of hosting [who lead opinion shows], of their nighttime Fox News Channel programs.” This ridiculousness is even worse in light of BuzzFeed News’s nutty content, which NewsGuard apparently does approve of.
A December 2021 MRC study found that outlets rated “left” or “lean left” by AllSides received an average NewsGuard score of 93/100. Sites that AllSides considered “right” or “lean right” like Fox News scored an average NewsGuard rating of 66/100.
BuzzFeed News hosts the fake Steele January 2017 dossier, which it uploaded on its website. This document made false and discrediting claims about Trump-Russia collusion. NewsGuard scores the outlet an excellent 100/100.
NewsGuard reached out to MRC Free Speech America in February to get comment from them about why they continue to score the outlet a perfect score.
In an email to MRC, NewsGuard General Manager Matt Skibinski justified his company’s perfect “100/100” rating for BuzzFeed News by noting the five-year timespan since the dossier’s publication and the fact that the dossier article is one “single story.”
That’s despite the fact that the Steele dossier was wielded as part of a protracted political investigation that cost $25.2 million in taxpayer dollars, according to Fox Business, and paralyzed the country for two years.
In addition to causing a rift in American politics, the Mueller investigation also made headlines. Other, more important news was left behind. Even though the dossier was published years ago, it became public knowledge in November 2021. The Washington Post retracted prior reporting about the primary source of the document’s wildest claims.
Skibinski’s weak justification that the dossier story wasn’t enough for a downgrade because it was a “single story” is pathetic in light of other nonsense BuzzFeed News has published. One 2014 BuzzFeed item masquerading as news, “14 Questions About Mpreg You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask,” promoted the insane idea that men can be pregnant.
The author, BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulos, pushed the notion that the contrived term “mpreg” is “a shortened version of male pregancy [sic]. M(ale)Preg(nancy).” A caption of a photo in the story of two pregnant male anime characters tried to sell readers that “mpreg” had become a “term for a genre of art and literature where a man is pregnant.”
All of the article was inundated by deformed fan art of male pregnant characters from popular culture like a pregnant President Barack Obama or a pregnant Squidward on Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants. The way Notopoulos addressed the question, “How do you know which guy from a couple gets mpreg and which one does the impregnating?” amounted to gibberish about the speculative erotic fiction concept of the omegaverse:
“Though mpreg may vary, there’s a something [sic]known as the omegaverse, which describes the laws of who is who in the mpreg world. Men can either be betas or alphas. Alphas or betas may infect omegas. Female alphas are also part of the Omegaverse. Also it’s kind more like dog sex or wolf sex with ‘knotting’ and stuff.”
But that’s not the only dung flung by BuzzFeed over recent years.
This outlet went after Jeffrey Toobin (CNN Chief Legal Analyst) who was caught masturbating while on a Zoom call. The New Yorker He was working as a staff reporter. In a piece disguised as news and not labeled opinion, BuzzFeed’s main excuse was: Hey, doesn’t everyone masturbate at Zoom meetings? “Jeffrey Toobin Can’t Be The Only Person Masturbating On Work Zoom Calls,” read the laughable BuzzFeed headline.
BuzzFeed “senior culture writer” Scaachi Koul even wielded Scripture to wokescold Toobin’s critics: “Haven’t we all done something on a work call that, in normal circumstances, we’d never do during a meeting? Let he without sin cast the first stone.”
That’s some hard-hitting journalism, eh, NewsGuard?
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