Occupy D seems to primarily interpret news reported elsewhere to write articles on their website. In the few articles that I've seen posted here, their interpretations seemed more 'hopeful' than news-accurate.
The Palmer Report pitches everything in support of the good guys (the Democrats). I view the articles in it as analysis or opinions, where that perspective is perfectly acceptable and often good to read.
Generally speaking, I think that websites that base most of what they write on someone else's reporting are not the best primary source news, especially in DU's LBN. Every professional news outlet does a little of that, of course, but they also do a lot of their own original reporting.
PS A site to avoid IMO is Bipartisan Report, which often repackages news with screaming Breaking News!!! headlines that don't match the content of the article, or even 'better', refer to events that happened months earlier.
PPS If you're still reading this 
there's a website called Observer. com which appears on DU from time to time. Even if an individual article sounds reasonable, the website is owned by the Kushners, AKA Trump's in-laws through the First Handmaiden's hubby. Her hubby was its longtime publisher: he sold the outlet about a month ago for conflict of interest reasons - to a Kushner family foundation! The 'new' owner promoted Jared's longtime chief editor to the publisher gig. I don't trust them myself, or want to contribute to their site traffic.
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