NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Is this just the beginning of the end for the First Amendment? (Full Series)
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Vitamin Deficiency Nutrition
The evaluation criteria revealed that nutritional information is complete nonsense.[1] The 100 points will be allocated as follows:
- “Do not repeatedly publish false or materially misleading content” (22 points)
- “Collect and present information responsibly” (18 points)
- “There are effective ways to correct errors” (12.5 points)
- “Handle the difference between news and opinion responsibly” (12.5 points)
- “Avoid misleading headlines” (10 points)
- “Website discloses ownership and funding” (7.5 points)
- “Advertisements are clearly displayed” (7.5 points)
- “Clarify who is in charge, including potential conflicts of interest” (5 points)
- “This site lists the names and contact or biographical information of content creators” (5 points)
All of these are graded on a pass/fail basis. A source must score 100 percent to receive the “highly credible” label, and nearly all of the major establishment media houses, e.g. The Washington Postand achieve the best results in your tests.
But the system works against everyone else.
Even the people who drafted the U.S. Constitution probably didn’t understand it 100%. It is one of the most important documents in the founding of the United States. Federalist Papers ((no relation to the aforementioned The Federalist Magazine) was a series of essays published in newspapers that carefully argued for ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
The authors were patriots James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, but, in defiance of NewsGuard’s “journalistic” standards, they all published anonymously. Pen name Calling themselves “Publius,” they did not reveal who their donors were: they had each attended the Constitutional Convention, and to write about its deliberations would violate an agreement to keep it secret, so they hid these secrets from their readers.[2]
The first draft nutritional rating failed to comply with NewsGuard criteria 6, 8 and 9. of The Federalist Papers The average score was only 82.5%, which is in the middle range of NewsGuard’s “somewhat trustworthy” rating and well below its “highly trustworthy” standard.
Such absurd results are as common as they are expected. C-SPAN, which for the past 30 years has aimed its neutral, uncritical cameras at the federal government and aired it without critically analyzing what is going on, received an absurd nutritional rating of 87.5 percent. This honest aggregator of information was docked 12.5 points because the network “did not meet NewsGuard’s standards for having effective practices for correcting errors.” History.com, the History Channel’s website, received a rating of just 70 percent, and RealClearPolitics received 62 percent, with both sites downgraded to a nutritional rating of “credible with exceptions.”
But if you use a nutrition labeling app to search for “Hunter Biden’s laptop” in your Google browser, you’ll see a score of 100% next to every article. POLITICO,NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Timesand other pillars of the regime media.[3] in contrast, New York Post The article scored 69.5 percent, with 18 of the missing marks being removed because NewsGuard deemed the newspaper “did not collect and present information responsibly” (see screenshot below).
When the news about the laptop first broke, a site calling itself 100% Nutrition Information completely irresponsibly promoted a fabricated letter written by dozens of biased former intelligence officials implying that the news was a Russian disinformation campaign.[4] In response to outrage over its failure to report on the laptop incident, NPR’s editor-in-chief Tweeted“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that aren’t really stories, and we don’t want to waste our listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just distractions.”[5]
Were all of these purely informative media outlets practicing “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “not collecting and presenting information responsibly”? Or were they all practicing all three at the same time?
In my next post, I will show how nutrition labels helped cover up a huge hoax spread by the media.
Note
[1] NewsGuard Technologies, “Website Rating Process and Criteria,” https://www.newsguardtech.com/ratings/rating-process-criteria/.
[2] Editors, History.com. “The Federalist Papers,” A&E Television Networks, https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/federalist-papers.
[3] Search “Hunter Biden laptop” on Google.com.
[4] Ken Brown, “The Twitter Files and the Ministry of Truth Media,” Capital Research Center, June 12, 2023, https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-ministry-of-truth-media-part-2/.
[5] NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor), “Why aren’t we seeing any of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden stories from NPR?” Twitter, Oct 22, 2022, 10:15am, https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096.
