Do any of you know anything about ground.news?

[LAS14]

Last edited Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:32 PM - Edit history (1)

It's a web site the purports to present news from many sources. I'm a little suspicious as it seems to rate the Washington Times as more left than right. I'd never heard of it until today.

Correction: It identifies the Times as right leaning.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Washington times is a far right Moonie owned paper

That should be enough to steer you clear of that site.

[sl8]

2. It looks like they rate them as "Leans Right".

They base their "Lean Right" rating on ratings from Ad Fontes Media, Media Bias/Fact Check, and All Sides.

https://ground.news/interest/washington-times

News from Washington Times

Ground News rates Washington Times’s media bias as Lean Right. This rating is based on a combination of the media bias ratings of a leanRight rating from Ad Fontes Media, a leanRight rating from Media Bias/Fact Check, a leanRight rating from from All Sides. Washington Times’s factuality rating is Mixed. Ground News calculates this rating using a combination of the fact and reliability ratings from Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check.

[LAS14]

3. Yes, thanks. I misunderstood the graphic in the upper right of their home page.

Do you visit tht site yourself?

[sl8]

4. Not really, no.

I think I've looked at it a couple of times, but not regularly. They seem to be fairly frequent advertisers on some podcasts & Youtube videos I've listened to or watched.

They might be a worthwhile addition to my newsfeed. I do like that they use those other sources when evaluating bias. I use them, myself.

[LAS14]

9. Might you be able to answer another ground.news question?

Yesterday, when looking at it for the first time, there was a graphic in the upper right corner, about 2 x 3 inches. Displays for the Guardian, the BBC and the Washington times scrolled from left to right. At the bottom of each display was a bar with percentages for blue, white and red. Apparently the bias of some sort for each of those outlets. One of the colors of the bar got higher for the current outlet. So, when the BBC was showing, (don't remember exact figures), the blue section was, 33%, the white 40% and the red 27%. And the white (let's say) got taller than the other two.

My question is, how can I see that graphic again? I can't find it.

[sl8]

11. Sorry, I'm not seeing that.

I've played around with it for a few minutes, but I'm not seeing the box you describe on the upper right. There is a box on the upper right of the page that shows various media outlets when you select "Donald Trump" and maybe some other topics, but it doesn't really match the description of what you saw.

Sorry.

[LAS14]

12. I couldn't find it again either.

I beat up ChatGPT to see if it could help. It ended up speculating that it was a marketing graphic, visible only to people who were visiting for the first time. Sounds like it must be something like that.

[Fla_Democrat]

5. I know that Shoe does ad reads for them

Never visited the site myself.

[LAS14]

6. I think this might be a real find.

The site's thing is to be clear about the POV of the news source. Of particular interest to me is the BlindSpot feature where they show what stories are grossly underreported both on the left and on the right.

[peggysue2]

7. Meidas Touch network has been hawking the value of Ground News for several weeks

In fact, they offer a 40% subscription reduction to anyone interested. The appeal is be able to discern what 'news' is slanted to what political angle/bias.

I haven't looked into it myself but the guys at Meidas seem to feel it's an invaluable source to filter out the noise and never-ending propaganda.

If you're a news junkie, it might be worth checking out.

[LAS14]

8. It's worth bumping.

I'll be checking the Blind Spot feature every day to see which stories the left and the right are ignoring.

[pecosbob]

10. Don't use it myself but several sites that I trust plug it regularly.