Raw Story hosts good articles, right?

[Duppers]

This one was a big slip - he trashed Obama in the 3rd paragraph. Needed to say that to make a point? No, the author didn't.😡

See: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/its-now-clear-trumps-intent-was-criminal/

[msongs]

1. its a crap hole. better to link directly to sources they are jacking nt

[womanofthehills]

4. Why are you putting down news sites that are progressive

We need left leaning news. Following from Wiki:

Raw Story media bias rating is Left.

The Raw Story is an online news publication founded in 2004 by John Byrne. It covers current national and international political and economic news and publishes its own editorials and investigative pieces. The Raw Story describes itself as progressive, bringing attention to stories that it sees as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets. It is owned by Raw Story Media Inc. based in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Rawstory rips off other sources that do the reporting, spin up some hype to make things sound more

dire, and pushes it out as their own. Why anyone reads it is beyond me.

[mr_lebowski]

7. The one reason is that there's no paywall ...

It's often the next-best recount of the salient points of articles that are pay-walled.

[womanofthehills]

3. Actually, I sometimes like to post Raw Story articles on Facebook because of their dramatic titles

Basically, they just repost stories with great headlines.

[Duppers]

5. I love RS. That's why I'm wondering why

...they filed this story when its author saw fit to trash Pres. Obama. We got his point w/o that attack.

And Raw Story never claims these articles as their own, contraire to what another poster in this thread stated. They always give the source. And rather like DU, RS is a readers digest of other progressive publications & articles.

Thanks, womanofthehills!

[tblue37]

11. They always link to the originzl, too.

I like it because it summarizes videos, and since videos often don't have CC of have awful CC, those summaries are important to us deafies.

[Indykatie]

6. I Don't Read RS Linked Articles Anymore - Their Website Freezes My Computer and Too Many Ads

[tblue37]

12. I always click the "reading view" button to avoid the ads and other junk. The reading view

sometimes won't show tweets, but if I really want to see the tweets, I can return to the regular view after reading the article in reading view.

[The River]

8. They Also Dump

a few dozen cookies into your system.

[sl8]

9. From Media Bias / FactCheck:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-story/

[...]

Analysis / Bias

In review, Raw Story is mostly a news aggregation site that aggregates news from AFP and Reuters. Raw Story also summarizes news from other sources such as this: “Irate customer drags salon owner 50 feet to her death after running out on manicure without paying.” Infrequently, they publish original stories such as this: Trans activist detained in Arizona and threatened with deportation due to bureaucratic catch-22. Raw Story consistently utilizes strong emotionally loaded headlines such as “Trump insists border wall will be ‘all concrete’ — except where it’s ‘see-through’: ‘Makes sense to me!’” and “MSNBC’s Morning Joe mocks ‘confused’ Trump over shutdown boasts: ‘Voters are blaming him’”.

When it comes to sourcing, Raw Story generally sources to credible media outlets such as the Washington Blade, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. In general, story selection always favors the left and frequently has an anti-Trump tone. Raw Story has published misleading articles that promote miracle cures such as this one: Scientists discover virus that kills all grades of breast cancer ‘within seven days’. This headline is misleading, as within the article they clearly state “but not in normal mammary epithelial cells.” When it comes to consensus science, they sometimes promote anti-GMO propaganda, however they also publish credible scientifically sound information as well.

A factual search reveals a Half-True claim from Politifact as well as a false claim and an Unproven claim with Snopes.

Overall, we rate Raw Story Left Biased based on story selection that favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to a half-true, false and unproven claims, as well as promotion of mild pseudoscience misinformation. (5/15/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 7/26/2019)

[Duppers]

14. Thanks for that info!

[tandem5]

10. RawStory is a sensationalized aggregator with a ton of typos, but

they do consolidate and summarize the most relevant topics of the day. So it's a good starting place to find the actual articles on other platforms.

You could probably say the same of DU, just perusing the GD thread list.

[kcr]

13. Raw Story is garbage.