Amid the debate now raging in Washington over whether online news is biased or fake, consider this: What do NationalReview.com, the website of the magazine founded by conservative icon William F. Buckley, and the Nation.com, the Internet arm of the liberal magazine founded by abolitionists in 1865, have in common? They both get “GREEN” ratings from NewsGuard, the company that we founded earlier this year. NewsGuard rates and provides “Nutrition Labels” for the thousands of websites responsible for 98 percent of the news and information consumed and shared online in the United States based on whether these websites adhere to most or all of the nine criteria that are the core ingredients of presenting news and information responsibly, transparently and accountably. CONT.
Steven Brill & Gordon Crovitz (NewsGuard), The Hill