Newsprism.wordpress.com is the complementary blog of Newsprism.com, a politically-oriented news portal developed and maintained by Dr. Preston Coleman of Gainesville State College in Watkinsville, Georgia.
Focusing on the American political scene, Newsprism.com ranks 36 news and commentary sites from left-leaning magazines (The Progressive, The New Republic,) newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post,) and television news organizations (CBS News, ABC News, CNN,) to right-leaning newspapers (The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times,) Internet news sites (Drudge Report, Newsmax) and magazines (National Review, The Weekly Standard.) Four sites judged to be centrist/objective make up the middle of the “prism”: The Des Moines Register, Real Clear Politics, Polling Report, and Politico.
Also included are 16 left-leaning blogs (Daily Kos, Huffington Post) and 16 right-leaning blogs (Instapundit, PowerLine) as well as 16 prominent progressive columnists (Joe Kline, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich) and 16 prominent conservative columnists (Pat Buchanan, Peggy Noonan, George Will.) These 64 sites are not ranked, but simply listed in alphabetical order. The archives of the late Molly Ivans and William Buckley are included in tribute to two of the wittiest and most gracious columnists in recent history.
Newsprism is intended to guide readers to some of the web’s most popular news and commentary sites while evaluating the sites’ political orientations as objectively as possible. The rankings, which are represented by a prism running from blue/progressive to red/conservative, are generated using a combination of targeted keyword searches and our independent news judgment.
