
The Blaze
TheBlaze Rated Right in May 2023 Blind Bias Survey
TheBlaze’s AllSides Media Bias Rating™ was confirmed as Right in our May 2023 Blind Bias Survey.
Respondents who rated their own bias as Left, Lean Left, Center or Lean Right rated TheBlaze as Right; respondents on the Right rated its bias as Lean Right. The average rating was Right, confirming AllSides existing media bias rating for TheBlaze.
A total of 1,009 people across the political spectrum took the survey, including 102 respondents with a self-reported Left bias; 223 with a Lean Left bias; 309 with a Center bias; 299 with a Lean Right bias, and 76 with a Right bias.
It was a brutal story of a premeditated gang rape at one of America’s most prestigious universities — and on Friday, the magazine that published it admitted the story might not be true.
One journalist’s coverage of the saga has been drawing particular fire.
Anna Merlan, a writer for the feminist blog Jezebel, initially defended Rolling Stone’s feature story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house — “A Rape on Campus” — vocifer