This is a companion post to my post about the top 10 left leaning news sources on the internet. These right leaning news sources have a distinct point of view. I tried to keep my comments about the reliability of these news sources to a minimum, but many of them made that impossible.
My advice?
Mix it up and see what the other side is reporting. Look for areas where you might agree. It’s a divisive time, but all of us would benefit from listening to the other side.
But don’t fall for nonsense, either.
1- FOX News
FOX News denies bias in its reporting. It’s hard to look the other way at their reporting, though — they’re clearly biased toward the right and should admit it. (MSNBC doesn’t seem to have a problem admitting their bias.)
The channel launched in 1996 and now has a strong internet presence. Most of the conservatives I know are devout viewers of FOX News.
2- Breitbart
BreitBart feels pretty tabloid-like to me. I’ll give the site credit, though — it doesn’t deny its bias toward the right. In fact, it celebrates it.
Andrew Breitbart launched the site in 2007.
3- Forbes
Forbes was originally a business magazine and still is, but their website is also an important news source for conservatives in the United States. They’re best know for their lists of richest people and most powerful people.
Their website is strange because they accept content from contributors who are willing to pay to have their content published there. You’ll often find articles in the search engines on Forbes that you wouldn’t expect to find there.
It’s one of the older news sources on this list. Forbes published its first issue in 1917.
4- Drudge Report
Drudge Report is interesting because of its business model and its flamboyant but private owner and operator, Matt Drudge. It’s also one of the only right-wing news sites to turn its back on Donald Trump.
Matt Drudge launched the site in 1995 and became notorious for breaking the news about the Monica Lewinsky affair. The site aggregates news, linking to other sources, and rarely publishes any original reporting.
5- Western Journal
The Western Journal is one of the newest sites on this list. It launched in 2008. I’d honestly never heard of this website until I wrote this post, but apparently it’s bigger than the Wall Street Journal, which I cover next.
In 2018, the site hired copy editors and fact checkers in an effort to become more legit.
6- Wall St. Journal
The Wall Street Journal focuses more on business than politics, but the political news has a definite rightward slant. In terms of conservative news sources, the Wall Street Journal has better quality journalism than most.
It’s also one of the dinosaurs on this list. The Wall Street Journal published its first newspaper in 1889.
7- New York Post
The New York Post has a distinctly tabloid feel to its website and its reporting. It’s even older than the Wall Street Journal. Their first issue was published in 1801.
Alexander Hamilton founded the paper. I wonder what he would think of it today?
8- Daily Caller
The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website that was launched by Tucker Carlson in 2010. Their stated goal was to provide an alternative to the Huffington Post, which is interesting, as HuffPost was launched to provide an alternative to Drudge.
So the wheel turns.
9- The Hill
The Hill is a newspaper that was launched in 1997 and that has a strong internet presence now. Their news coverage focuses almost exclusively on national politics in the United States.
10- Infowars
Infowars is considered one of the far-right news sources, and it was launched by Alex Jones in 1999. The site earns money by advertising products that Jones shills on his shows. The site has published so much harmful and inaccurate content that it’s been banned from many larger outlets, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Honorable Mentions
I should also mention the existence of these right-leaning new sites:
I hope you enjoyed my coverage of news media sites from both sides of the divide in the United States. Also, I might have more ideas for posts in this series, in fact.
A final observation — it seems that the most popular news sites on the right are strongly associated with a single personality. That seems to be less so with the left news sites. I’ll admit I could be mistaken, though. Thoughts?