Roughly a week after he had penned an earlier column for The Hill in which he criticized NewsGuard as infected with a "Pro-Democrat and left-wing bias," the for-profit organization "Came knocking," Turley explained.
Turley further stressed that his "Blog has thousands of postings that cut across the ideological spectrum." He has "Criticized Trump in the past," the George Washington University law professor added, while also refusing to "Suspend [his] legal judgment when cases touch on the interests of conservatives or Donald Trump." It's another indication NewsGuard deigns itself not only the arbiter of truth, but also of a law professor's political or policy-oriented views.
NewsGuard's efforts to categorize Turley's diverse ideological views as conservative or libertarian-and then to expect him to inaccurately label himself for his readers-perfectly illustrates a structural deficiency in NewsGuard's business model: NewsGuard relies on employees and a Board of Advisors hailing from the so-called "Mainstream media." NewsGuard's Board of Advisors, which serves as subject-matter experts for the for-profit enterprise, is also heavily stacked with former government officials.
Now why would NewsGuard select Davis's post among the millions made every day on X? Did NewsGuard make similar inquiries to other outlets that, rather than posing questions about the then-still unseen president, pushed Democrat talking points about former President Donald Trump?
Did NewsGuard ask Reuters what it meant by its post? Is NewsGuard analyzing all the outlets that misrepresented Trump's comments as evidence of dictatorial tendencies, as opposed to an entreaty for low-propensity voters to drag themselves to the polls this one time? What about outlets like Newsweek, which reported "Donald Trump might not have been shot after all"? Were they on the receiving end of NewsGuard's inquisitorial emails? If not, why not?
NewsGuard can continue to guarantee favored outlets retain top reliability ratings by also ignoring the false and misleading coverage of the assassination attempt of Trump, which was framed at first as a fall by many outlets NewsGuard rates as reliable.
Without transparency concerning how and why NewsGuard selects posts or articles for review, as well as information about the relative quantity of materials assessed by outlet, NewsGuard's ratings lack all credibility and are best branded GIGO-garbage in, garbage out.
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