ConservativeOpinion.com – Bias and Credibility

These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward conservative 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 conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Right Bias sources.

Update: This source is no longer producing content.

• Overall, we rate ConservativeOpinion.com Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to lack of ownership disclosure and occasionally not providing sources to support opinions.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

History

ConservativeOpinion.com is a news and mostly opinion blog that does not have an about page. Their Facebook page describes itself as “ConservativeOpinion.com is the preeminent conservative blog, featuring essays from leading conservative thinkers.” The articles reviewed today were all published under the editor-in-chief, Jordan B. Rickards. A search shows that he may be an attorney from New Jersey; however, we cannot confirm this and do not want to link the wrong person to this website.

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Funded by / Ownership

The website does not disclose ownership, though Jordan B. Rickard’s name dates back to the earliest days of the website. The website appears to be funded through online advertising.

Analysis / Bias 

In review, ConservativeOpinion.com’s primary focus is on libertarianism and capitalism. There is the substantial use of loaded language in headlines when describing liberals or liberal policies such as these: The Blithe Ignorance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shows Why Socialism Appeals to Millennials and Democrats Seek Votes From Convicts, Children, Non-Americans, and Lazy People. When it comes to sourcing information, ConservativeOpinion is hit or miss. Some articles are thoroughly sourced to credible media outlets, and others are not sourced at all. Occasionally, they link to a Questionable source such as CNSNews. Due to holding libertarian (free-market) leanings, they were sometimes critical of President Donald Trump.

In 2022, they continue to promote conservative libertarian-based news and opinions such as The Left Suffers from Abortion Distortion Syndrome. This story is sourced adequately from MarketWatch and the Catholic News Agency. We also searched for stories on election fraud conspiracies and covid vaccines misinformation and found none. In general, ConservativeOpinion.com holds a conservative biased editorial perspective and does not always source properly.

Failed Fact Checks

• A third-party fact checker has not fact-checked them.

Overall, we rate ConservativeOpinion.com Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to lack of ownership disclosure and occasionally not providing sources to support opinions. (D. Van Zandt 7/23/2018) Updated (07/29/2022)

Source: https://conservativeopinion.com/