Does anybody know anything about 'The Examiner'??

[renie408]

I googled 'latest polls' and the top two articles were from 'The Examiner'. One was entitled "Latest polls show U.S. Senate shifting sharply for Republican majority" and the other was "Mitt Romney maintains strong electoral lead according to state polls". Glancing through the articles, it seems pretty obviously to have a conservative/GOP bias. But what I am wondering is how it manages to have the top two spots on Google?

[southernyankeebelle]

1. If that is out of Washington DC it is a right wing newspaper. Don't believe it. Maybe google and

yahoo lean right. (I think they do)

[renie408]

2. BTW...every poll that I can find except FOX and Gallup have Obama leading. And Gallup is tied. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. If it's this "Examiner" it's basically a loose collection of bloggers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examiner.com

According to this, its reputation for accuracy isn't the greatest.

[struggle4progress]

5. +

[_Liann_]

6. Philip Anschutz, billionaire, another global-warming-denier, Board Member of Amer Petroleum Inst.

Examiner.com is a division of Clarity Media Group, with the primary investor being billionaire businessman Philip Anschutz, owner of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), Regal Cinemas, and other media and entertainment companies.[3][4][6] Examiner.com has over 55,000 contributors,[2] commonly referred to on the site as "Examiners."

The company derives its name from Anschultz/Clarity's 2004 purchase of the San Francisco Examiner, which had previously owned the examiner.com domain.[7]

[Brickbat]

4. It's citizen journalism at its "finest." It's a bunch of self-identified "experts" who blog about

whatever strikes their fancy. Why it's accepted as a source here is beyond me.

[locks]

7. Colorado's Anschutz

Thanks Liann. The first time a site I trusted referred to a piece in the Examiner I was shocked by a really bad rightwing rant and tried to find out what the Examiner was, not easy to do until you click on their "Partner Links" which are all part of the worldwide Anschutz company. We know him well in Colorado (he gave $100mil to have the CU Medical School named after him.) We also know the way he has made his billions and he's right up with the Koch brothers in funding the most conservative politics we have, including Joe Coors' run for Senator. We have many good Democrats in Colorado, unfortunately not many come close to Anschutz money.

[Archae]

8. The Washington Examiner?

Right-wing, maybe ever worse than the Washington Times.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/08/10/meet-the-washington-examiner-gop-debate-co-spon/183746