Talking Points Memo Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Talking Points Memo in the Skews Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Talking Points Memo is a news and opinion website launched in 2000 by journalist and blogger Josh Marshall. It features articles about politics and public policy, with a focus on abuses of power. Talking Points Memo is headquartered in New York City, with a bureau in Washington, D.C.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 35.81

Bias: -11.79

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
The Striking Details That Jack Smith Used To Tighten His January 6 Case Against Trump -7.67 39
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What Is Trump Buying With Millions In Legal Fees For His Associates? -15.33 25.33
Fog of War, Rush to Judgment and the Day After -2.67 40.33
The House GOP Slo-Mo Trainwreck Enters Its Third Week -18 23
DOJ Launches Hate Crime Investigation Into Brutal Killing Of Palestinian American Boy -12.67 43.33
‘This Is The Moment’: Some House Republicans Push To Expand McHenry’s Power Amid Speakership Circus -6.17 43.17
Speaker Jordan’s Toxic Baggage -19.5 19.5
Did Trump Himself Rifle Through MAL Docs After Subpoena? -16.33 24
Now That Trump’s Been Indicted, Jim Jordan Wants To Defund The Police -14.67 37.33
60 Minutes Gets MTG To Open Up About … Dems Being Pedophiles? -16.67 30.67
Citing Jan 6th, Speaker Wants to Expel Members Who Joined School Shooting Protest -7.33 38.67
Trump Arrival In NYC Gets Wall-To-Wall Network News Coverage -7.33 31.67
DOJ Tries To Stymie Jan. 6 Defendants From Exploiting McCarthy-Carlson Surveillance Vid Gambit -6.33 45.33
A Series Of Cuomesses: New York Guv’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week 0 42
DOJ: Hundreds Of Capitol Insurrection Cases Opened, Months Of Investigation Ahead -2.67 43.67
Michigan Police Brace For Potential State Capitol Riots 0 48.33
Pence Finally Called Harris To Offer Congratulations And Help With Transition -5.33 44.67
Boebert Offers ‘Thousand Apologies’ After Assuming Dem Accused Her Of Aiding Rioters -3.67 45.33
Beyond Trump’s Dismal Approval Rating, Polls Show Some Troubling Republican Trends -6.67 42
New GOP Congress Fires Shot At Social Security On Day One -13.67 46
MSNBC Anchor Pulls Plug On Trump Camp Adviser After Stoking Biden Earpiece Conspiracy -12 35
Texas Guv Sued For Move To Severely Limit Mail Ballot Drop-Off Locations -3 48.33
Trump Tries To Publicly Undermine Own FBI Director’s Findings On Russian Meddling -11.33 33

 

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