Biased NewsGuard Gives Tucker 0/10 Credibility, CNN’s John King 9/10

Try figuring this one out. Biased ratings firm NewsGuard reportedly gave leftist CNN’s Inside Politics a credibility score of 9/10, while Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show notched a 0/10.

MRC Free Speech America showed in a December 2021 report that “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard has a strong leftist, anti-free speech bias. But the online ratings firm is now expanding beyond online news to TV news, Variety reported. Variety said NewsGuard’s ratings of “140 cable, streaming, and network television shows and networks will be available to advertising agencies, marketers, and others starting January 2, 2023.”

NewsGuard’s bias is already evident based on its TV show ratings. NewsGuard scored Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight at rock bottom, giving the show a 0/10.  NewsGuard claimed Carlson’s show “regularly advances false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims on topics of importance such as COVID-19 and U.S. and international politics.”

“NewsGuard is a dangerous form of censorship,” said MRC President Brent Bozell. “They are trashing Tucker’s show and downgrading anything they don’t like, then pushing advertisers to bail and force them off the air.”

Meanwhile, CNN’s Inside Politics received a NewsGuard rating of 9/10