Daily Source Bias Check: Citizen Critics

These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation.  They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Left Bias sources.

• Overall, we rate Citizen Critics Left Biased based on story selection that usually favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record.

Detailed Report

Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 48/180

History

Founded in 2016, Citizen Critics is a not-for-profit collaboration which provides readers with original commentaries critical analysis and discussion of politics by prominent scholars and experts in various fields. Citizen Critics indicate their purpose as “Our goal is to provide rigorous but accessible analysis that holds public figures accountable for their discourse and policies.”

The website lists editors names and provides bios.

Funded by / Ownership

Citizen Critics does not disclose ownership and revenue appears to be derived from an online shop that sells branded merchandise.

Analysis / Bias

In review, Citizen Critics publishes articles with loaded headlines and content such as: “Betsy DeVos’s Educational Trumpism.” Citizen Critics utilizes mostly credible sources such as Slate, CNBC, National Review, NY Post, Daily Signal as well as less known sources such as freetochoose.tv and tandfonline.com. Story selection almost always favor the left such as this: Trump’s Rhetorical Stonewalling Strategy. This story is appropriately sourced to USA Today, CNN and the New Yorker. In general, reporting is factual with a moderate left leaning bias in story selection.

A factual search reveals they have not failed a fact check.

Overall, we rate Citizen Critics Left Biased based on story selection that usually favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (M. Huitsing 11/9/2017) Updated (11/3/2019)

Source: https://citizencritics.org