# Politico (website): Left or Right bias? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486 "2025-01-27T19:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/1 "2025-01-27T19:45:33Z")
Subject is my question. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/2 "2025-01-27T19:48:23Z")
@TreacherousCretin- right or left bias? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/3 "2025-01-27T20:00:29Z")
According to Ground News, they “Lean Left” (the scale goes Far Left \> Left \> Lean Left \> Center \> Lean Right \> Right \> Far Right). They also have a “Very High” factuality rating. [https://ground.news/interest/politico](https://ground.news/interest/politico) ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/4 "2025-01-27T20:36:26Z")
They also lean slightly left in two other reviews: [https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart](https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart) [https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive](https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive) Matches my own experience as an occasional reader, too. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/5 "2025-01-27T21:23:41Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > According to Ground News, they “Lean Left” (the scale goes Far Left \> Left \> Lean Left \> Center \> Lean Right \> Right \> Far Right). > > They also have a “Very High” factuality rating. If they have a “Very High” factuality rating, does that mean reality has a “Lean Left” bias? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/6 "2025-01-27T21:26:09Z")
Facts are left-leaning. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/7 "2025-01-27T21:44:45Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > If they have a “Very High” factuality rating, does that mean reality has a “Lean Left” bias? There are right leaning and center publications market by Ground News’s sources as “Very High” factuality, too. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/8 "2025-01-27T21:48:00Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > If they have a “Very High” factuality rating, does that mean reality has a “Lean Left” bias? It means that the Right is factually wrong to the degree that it’s predictive; if a right winger claims something you don’t even need to know what it is they are claiming to _accurately_ guess that it’s probably false. The fact that they are claiming something is evidence in its own right that the claim is false. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/9 "2025-01-27T22:33:17Z")
A news site that questions and fact-checks the status quo is going to be “left-leaning” if the status quo of the power structure is toward the right. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/10 "2025-01-28T19:49:28Z")
Thanks all, my question has been answered. My impression had been Politico is leftish, but I few days ago I stumbled across an absurdly pro-Trump article, moved past it. Afterward I would’ve sworn it was on Politico but at 74 my short-term memory already fails me. (And by then my browser history had been cleared.) ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/11 "2025-01-28T19:59:30Z")
If you check your browser history and search there, you might be able to find it. If it was indeed Politico, it’d be interesting to hear their take on it. Usually it’s a pretty good publication with relatively sober takes on things. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/12 "2025-01-28T20:00:48Z")
Maybe it was The Hill? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/13 "2025-01-29T01:30:22Z")
Found it. It was Politico. I don’t think I’ll bother reading it. [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-column-trump-great-president-00199564](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-column-trump-great-president-00199564) ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/14 "2025-02-06T18:17:59Z")
Well in either case, it’s going to get destroyed by Trump pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politico-website-left-or-right-bias/1013486/15 "2025-02-06T19:10:08Z")
That _Politico_ article is not as pro-Trump as it initially sounds. It’s about how **consequential** Trump has been and how Democrats need to forge a competing vision.