Salon Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Strong Left

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Salon in the Strong Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Salon is a news and opinion website created in 1995, one of the first all-digital media outlets. It was created by David Talbot, a former editor for the San Francisco Examiner. Salon is owned by Chris Richmond and Drew Schoentrup.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Salon according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 32.30

Bias: -14.41

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
"Fear is the mind killer": The political lesson of "Dune" -11.33 32.67
Trump suggests he could face “extortion and blackmail” if SCOTUS doesn’t grant him immunity -7 30.67
Administration officials watered down VP Kamala Harris' criticism of Israel in Gaza speech: report -5.67 41.33
Illinois adds itself to the list of states trying to boot Trump from their primary ballot -0.67 41.67
War is bad for you — and the economy: False job claims fuel massive Pentagon budgets -17.67 33.33
"Nothing has compared to what we're seeing": Hala Gorani on the toll of covering Gaza war -6 48.33
Comedian Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" journey from firing to hosting, explained 0 44
First abortion, then IVF… and now birth control? -17 27.33
Jack Smith filing uses Biden special counsel report against Trump: Not even "remotely similar" -3.67 43.33
The measles outbreak in Florida is a warning for the rest of the nation -3.67 46.33
Leaked audio: Right-wing Texas Supreme Court justice caught blasting "brainwashed" GOP colleagues -4.67 45.33
Raw cheddar company linked to multi-state E. coli outbreak 0 42.33
Inside the internal debates of a hospital abortion committee -11 44.67
Black women are vital to science and health journalism -15 32.67
The case of Carrie Buck and the Supreme Court’s century-old crusade to control women -15.67 33.33
Trump's CPAC speech showed clear signs of major cognitive decline — yet MAGA cheered -19.33 24.67
"Next it’ll be birth control": Hillary Clinton warns of what Alabama's IVF ruling could impact -15.33 31.67
"Disney sucks": Elon Musk weighs-in on buzz over Ayo Edebiri in rumored female-led "Pirates" reboot -10 30.67
Judge says "it's possible" DA Fani Willis could be disqualified from Trump RICO case -6 41.67
Uber Eats edits star-studded Super Bowl ad after backlash over food allergy insensitivity -1 42.33
From “Be Mine” to “Text Me," how candy hearts reflect the shifting heart of contemporary dating 1.33 42.67
Jon Stewart on Taylor Swift and conservatives "politicizing every aspect of American life" -8 37.33
There may be no better way to celebrate Fat Tuesday than with this King Cake Bushwacker cocktail 0 40.67
You're no "snowflake": Why treating a child as special can have catastrophic consequences 0 34.33
"Trump is not an option—they are done with him": Are "persuadable" Republicans the new #NeverTrump? -17.33 24.67

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