I'm not attacking you on the content of the article, I'm calling you out for the source as a whole. Then you come in and use a leftist media bias rating webpage as validation to your Axios link. You can't make this shizz up.
The whole media bias thing is interesting to me, and really sums up our polarization. It's the living, breathing evidence of confirmation bias.
The people who are the most extreme, most radical, and most entrenched on either side are the ones who are most likely to primarily follow the sources that are way out on the edges. And, they're also the most likely to call out any source that's not nearly as far out as they are and claim that they have the opposite bias - even if they really don't.
I like allsides.com, they don't really report the news themselves, but they'll aggregate articles from left/center/right and present them together. Reading those side by side tends to give both an insight to the issue, and also to how ridiculous and fear-mongering both extremes are. Their bias ratings are based on a fairly robust survey of readers and sources - much bigger than any other source I've seen - and their ratings shake out in the vicinity of what I'd expect, with some tweaks in either direction. Their far right and far left sources are more in the realm of what I would categorize as "entertainment" not news (Mother Jones and The New Yorker, OAN and Breitbart are sometimes good for a laugh, but I wouldn't take much from them seriously).
https://adfontesmedia.com/ is also interesting, because in addition to rating bias they add accuracy. No real surprise, as you approach both extremes, the amount of misleading or fabricated information also increases. There are some nice mileposts on this one (in my opinion) - they have the Megyn Kelly show and Anderson Cooper rated very similarly in accuracy, with opposing biases. I consider both of them to be toward the extreme, and anything past them on the ratings as comedy, not reality. While I like their presentation, their methodology says they use 60 analysts, which is a pretty small sample size, and I'd automatically call less reliable than allsides (which uses 1,400 respondents).
Realistically, like others have said before...the most even-handed reporting of US events is probably by the international media. They all think we're idiots, and we tend to prove them right.
