I personally do not care for any major news outlet - they all are equally distasteful in my opinion. However, for the sake of this topic, I would need to point out that the 'score cards' created by politifact are unreliable at best. The means they used to assess the honesty of each station was highly subjective in a variety of ways. The comments used to produce their data were only a select few pulled from the vast majority. This is a bit like critiquing the integrity of an individual based off of a sample of the statements they have made, only all of the statements chosen are untrue. If, in theory, the better part of total things said by this person happen to be true, this will not show in the data produced from the sample, as it has been populated with all un-truths. It also happens that 33% the comments selected for the scorecards were suggested to the site by the public - meaning that the data collected is possibly influenced by bias.
Also, the set you linked was relevant only to a single month.
I would caution against making broad claims based on statistics, as they are pliable. The other sites are also affected by this - I would be happy to elaborate on how.
@McSloth
I personally do not care for any major news outlet - they all are equally distasteful in my opinion. However, for the sake of this topic, I would need to point out that the 'score cards' created by politifact are unreliable at best. The means they used to assess the honesty of each station was highly subjective in a variety of ways. The comments used to produce their data were only a select few pulled from the vast majority. This is a bit like critiquing the integrity of an individual based off of a sample of the statements they have made, only all of the statements chosen are untrue. If, in theory, the better part of total things said by this person happen to be true, this will not show in the data produced from the sample, as it has been populated with all un-truths. It also happens that 33% the comments selected for the scorecards were suggested to the site by the public - meaning that the data collected is possibly influenced by bias.
Also, the set you linked was relevant only to a single month.
I would caution against making broad claims based on statistics, as they are pliable. The other sites are also affected by this - I would be happy to elaborate on how.