Daily Caller - Media Bias/Fact Check
Detailed Report
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180
History
Founded in 2010, the Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The current editor-in-chief is Geoff Ingersol.
Funded by / Ownership
The Daily Caller is owned by The Daily Caller, Inc., which does not list its ownership or members. The website was initially launched after raising $3 million in funding from businessman Foster Friess. Currently, the Daily Caller is funded through native online advertising, averaging 30 million+ page views per month.
Analysis / Bias
In review, The Daily Caller is a strongly right leaning news and opinion website that has been involved with publishing controversial and false stories. For example, they routinely publish misleading or false information regarding climate change that goes against the consensus of science. The Daily Caller has also published articles by Jason Kessler, a white supremacist who organized a rally of hundreds of white nationalists in Charlottesville. They subsequently scrubbed those articles after the Charlottesville vehicular homicide incident.
The Daily Caller frequently uses loaded emotional language that typically favors the right such as this: DEM NOMINEE FOR FLORIDA GOVERNOR IS PROGRESSIVE MAYOR WITH CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION SWIRLING AROUND HIM. The Daily Caller usually sources their information to credible media outlets, but sometimes they utilize sources that are factually mixed such as the Daily Wire and Questionable sources such as Judicial Watch. In reviewing story content, virtually all favored the right in story selection and wording, while denigrating the left. The Daily Caller also promotes a favorable view of President Donald Trump through promotion of his policies.
A factual search reveals a very poor track record with fact checking. Here is a short list of some failed fact checks:
The Daily Caller has failed numerous fact checks, however they post a significant amount of articles each day. Based on the volume of articles published, versus failed fact checks, they do not fall into the Questionable category, though they are close.
- “Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa.” – FALSE
- “Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election” – FALSE
- George Soros-controlled Smartmatic manufactures the voting machines used in 16 crucial states, and those states will be rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. – FALSE
- Indiana Muslims are appalled by a billboard displaying a list of deeds by the Prophet Muhammad even though it is accurate. – MOSTLY FALSE
- Washington state has updated their curriculum standards to include teaching “transgenderism” to Kindergarteners. – MOSTLY FALSE
Overall, we rate the Daily Caller strongly right biased based on story selection that almost always favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks. The Daily Caller is a source that needs to be fact checked on a per article basis. (7/19/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 8/29/2018)
Source: The Daily Caller
I always like when people think they're getting a bonus check.$600 less in return but paid $900 less in tax during the year.
You do realize the ideal return would be $0 right?
According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie are purposely taking credit for improvements made to a veterans healthcare program that started under President Obama.
At a rally in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump said, “We passed VA Choice and VA Accountability to give our veterans the care that they deserve and they have been trying to pass these things for 45 years.”
Trump claims he passed a private-sector healthcare program for vets and that past presidents have failed in doing so for the last 45 years. But, the AP says that is not true. The program Trump is bragging about, Veterans Choice, passed in 2014 under the Obama administration.
Also, VA Secretary Wilkie made another false assertion in a Thursday interview with Fox News, claiming, “The first thing I did was change out the leadership at VA… And, as a result, the Journal of the American Medical Association this year said that our waiting times are now as good or better than any in the private sector.”
Again, that is not true. The AP said Wilkie is “distorting the facts” for saying he has made changes that improved waiting times at VA medical centers and added a new same-day mental health service. Those improvements were enacted under the Obama administration.
Yet still less bias than the source you posted above. Thanks for validating the bias chart.
Are you actually that delusional?Yet still less bias than the source you posted above. Thanks for validating the bias chart.
LoL @ any fact/bias check website being honest about liberal bias. You have to add points/percentages for their margin of error whenever it's a liberal source...Yet still less bias than the source you posted above. Thanks for validating the bias chart.
He stated exactly what was in the report no more no less.Trump is going to jail, the moment he is no longer president:
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I wish our President was above all this shit. Even if you agree with policies, it is hard to like a 70 something year old man acting like a teenager on twitter.
Totally agree. It's the one thing that annoys me about him. He does like to troll but I agree the office should be above that.I wish our President was above all this shit. Even if you agree with policies, it is hard to like a 70 something year old man acting like a teenager on twitter.
he pretty much said everything we already knew. another nothing burger from muellerHe stated exactly what was in the report no more no less.
Rent free!
There's this thing called "reasonable doubt"...Trump is going to jail, the moment he is no longer president:
View: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/824678527916227/
Special counsel Robert Mueller said that if his office "had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."