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: 32.87

Bias: -13.52

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
"Find a coward to file your motion": Adams prosecutor resigns after being asked to drop charges -10.33 39.33
Amazon tries to block Whole Foods workers from forming a union after losing NLRB election -2 43.33
Trump meme coins plummeted amid tariff turbulence -3 43.33
Jesse Eisenberg is over being associated with “problematic” Mark Zuckerberg -1.67 37.0
Trump's first week: "Designed to destroy the United States from within" -16.33 30.33
Disney decides against transgender arc in Pixar’s "Win or Lose" series -5.33 43.0
Keith Olbermann: MSNBC, fire "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski -7 37.33
ABC News capitulates to Donald Trump. Is this the future of American media? -16.33 28.0
"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire -13 35.0
Memory problems? Here’s why poor sleep may be the cause — and how to fix it 0.0 46.33
"Shoot them down!!!": Trump demands action on New Jersey drone sightings -8.67 37.0
TikTok wants potential ban paused until Supreme Court can review case -1.33 40.67
When facts no longer matter: 3 key steps to return to civil dialogue -13 23.0
Ted Cruz calls suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter proof leftism is a "mental disease" -3.33 39.0
European satellites launched to create an artificial eclipse 0.0 44.33
"My only heartbreak is for my family": Jay-Z denies claim he raped a child with Diddy in new lawsuit 0.0 40.33
"Start a big wave": Whole Foods employees want their union drive to inspire workplace "resistance" -6.67 40.67
"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin says she's rooting for a "smart" Donald Trump presidency -3 40.67
The end of the special counsel forever? Jack Smith is in survival mode -9.67 39.0
A "roadmap" for "hope, resistance and reconstruction" in a second Trump presidency -16.67 32.33
170 arrested as climate activists in Australia block one of the world’s largest coal ports -8.67 41.33
Kirk Cameron wants to protect children from being taught morality by "gay dinosaurs and trans ducks" -7.67 39.67
"I persevered": Trump celebrates case dismissals, calling them "political hijacking" 0.0 36.67
"Hidden good news": Nate Silver predicts 2024 election loss will spur a Democratic comeback -15.33 28.0
"Awful sign": Knives out in MAGA world over reported "disaster" Trump Cabinet pick -15 31.0