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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
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You obviously know very little about Drudge and apparently you do not frequent his site much. Drudge has published links to unfavorable things on all sides since he started.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
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Regardless of your chosen source to report the level of bias of a media source, this has nothing to do with the original post. Drudge is a conservative yes. That doesn't make him an "ardent of supporters" for Trump. He provides links to reports by other news agencies, with an occasional report of his own. He has never tried to market himself as some completely biased media source either. There in lies the difference I see in many of the left (and some right) leaning media sources who continue to claim they are not biased. I know what I'm getting with Drudge, I don't think he's in for anyone, he reports articles which both support and hurt conservatives. In 2005 his site was even rated by a UCLA study as left of center.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664

Instead of reading Media Bias site OPINIONS, try going to the site and form your own opinion. I go to Drudge, Huffpo, and then some because I'm interested in different perspectives. Drudge is a populist (interestingly enough, so is Trump). He looks for the interesting articles (good or bad) because they generate viewers. Favorable reports about Trump when most of the liberal media is purposefully inundating their sites with negative news, reaches out to other audiences who have become apathetic to the MSM's antics. That doesn't mean he won't tap into the articles which highlight dissension within the Republican Party either.

I look at Drudge at least once a day. He has never had a problem posting reports which both hurt and help conservatives.
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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SPC Randy Semanko - Not a left wing fact checker. It's a nice try though. Just claim any source that disagrees with your narrative is left wing. So how did that "left wing" source I used rate CNN I wonder? Well, well, well, it didn't find them unbiased either.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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SPC Randy Semanko - And you were wrong last time too.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
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You don't get it. I don't need or want a so called media bias checker to tell me who may or may not be more bias and to what side of the political spectrum. I can see it for myself. I read and watch multiple sources all the time. In my office there's a running joke on predicting what CNN or Fox will be pushing at any given time of the day. Showing me these "studies" do not tell me anything new and I find that they too are subject to the same bias as the media sites they name. You showed me one on Drudge and I showed you another which told a different story. But the thing you really seem to not get is, Drudge links to reports as well as the direct links to each of the media sources including NYT, WAPO, CNN, FOX, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, HuffPo, Salon, and SO much more.
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LTC Multifunctional Logistician
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I thought the Drudge Report was a news aggregration site with links to news around the world from hundreds of sources and viewpoints? I think folks are missing a point. Trump is not a capitol C, conservative and he is not a Ted Cruz hard core ideologist. There is a problem, fix the problem. Its that simple. Supporters of Mr. Trump come from various backgrounds, like it or not. These are the folks that now realize they have been played. So its Trump, his supporters, and everyone else supporting the status quo. Say what you want about Trump supporters but they are the largest political faction out there today. They want government to either work for the People or get out of the way. We can see with this Health Care Insurance legislation that Republicans are simply the right wing of the Democrat Party. So, I don't see Trump supporters running for life boats. I see a pissed- off group of people that are going to cull out the week and ineffective in their party.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield my goodness of the most interesting!
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