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In February 2016, ''The Raw Story'' reported that [[Fox News]] anchor [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] had lost custody of his children because he had physically abused their mother; the article was cited by [[Occupy Democrats]] later that May. [[Snopes]] determined that the ''[[Gawker]]'' article cited by ''The Raw Story'' had reported that O'Reilly had lost custody of his children, but did not suggest that O'Reilly had lost custody due to violent behavior.<ref>{{Cite web|last=LaCapria|first=Kim|date=May 11, 2016|title=Bill O'Reilly Loses Custody Battle Due to Domestic Violence?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-oreilly-lost-custody/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-24|website=[[Snopes]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
In February 2016, ''The Raw Story'' reported that [[Fox News]] anchor [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] had lost custody of his children because he had physically abused their mother; the article was cited by [[Occupy Democrats]] later that May. [[Snopes]] determined that the ''[[Gawker]]'' article cited by ''The Raw Story'' had reported that O'Reilly had lost custody of his children, but did not suggest that O'Reilly had lost custody due to violent behavior.<ref>{{Cite web|last=LaCapria|first=Kim|date=May 11, 2016|title=Bill O'Reilly Loses Custody Battle Due to Domestic Violence?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-oreilly-lost-custody/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-24|website=[[Snopes]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

In October 2017, a fake news story spread that falsely claimed that [[chief deputy]] for the [[Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office|Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office]] was a [[white supremacist]] who wanted "to rape and kill a black man or a Jew.” The false story was picked up by ''The Raw Story'' under the headline, “Top Florida law enforcement official plotted to abduct, rape and murder ‘a black man or a Jew.’” ''The Raw Story'' eventually took the story down without explanation and denied to comment on the matter. [[Tim Wise]], who shared the ''The Raw Story'' on Facebook, vowed to never share from ''The Raw Story'' again due to their failure to fact-check.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mower|first=Lawrence|date=November 18, 2017|title=Story labeling PBSO chief deputy as racist is fake news|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/story-labeling-pbso-chief-deputy-racist-fake-news/vymFmZZDY34MGTVVldcuFO/|url-status=live|access-date=June 26, 2021|website=[[The Palm Beach Post]]|language=en}}</ref>


In December 2017, ''The Raw Story'' published an article based on a [[CNN]] report which mistakenly stated that on September 4, 2016, [[Donald Trump Jr.]] had received a website and a decryption key to preview the emails from the [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak]] before they were made public by [[WikiLeaks]]; the date was later corrected by CNN to September 14, 2016, which was after the emails had been reported on publicly. ''The Raw Story'' did not include the correction in its article.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Benkler|first=Yochai|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624|title=Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics|last2=Faris|first2=Robert|last3=Roberts|first3=Hal|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2018|isbn=978-0-19-092366-2|language=en-US|chapter=Mainstream Media Failure Modes and Self-Healing in a Propaganda-Rich Environment|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624|chapter-url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624-chapter-6}}</ref>
In December 2017, ''The Raw Story'' published an article based on a [[CNN]] report which mistakenly stated that on September 4, 2016, [[Donald Trump Jr.]] had received a website and a decryption key to preview the emails from the [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak]] before they were made public by [[WikiLeaks]]; the date was later corrected by CNN to September 14, 2016, which was after the emails had been reported on publicly. ''The Raw Story'' did not include the correction in its article.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Benkler|first=Yochai|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624|title=Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics|last2=Faris|first2=Robert|last3=Roberts|first3=Hal|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2018|isbn=978-0-19-092366-2|language=en-US|chapter=Mainstream Media Failure Modes and Self-Healing in a Propaganda-Rich Environment|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624|chapter-url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624-chapter-6}}</ref>

Revision as of 21:05, 26 June 2021

The Raw Story
File:Screen shot of RawStory.png
Homepage in February 2013
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004)
OwnerRaw Story Media, Inc., John K. Byrne, Michael Rogers
Created byJohn K. Byrne
EditorRoxanne Cooper
URLwww.rawstory.com
CommercialYes

The Raw Story (also stylized as RawStory[1]) is an American progressive news website and online tabloid[2] founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne.[3][4] The Raw Story describes itself as bringing attention to stories they see as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets.[3]

History

The Raw Story was founded in January/February 2004 by John K. Byrne.[5] In a 2007 interview with Mother Jones, Byrne stated that in his view, the most overhyped technology was "The campaign chats and these controlled Washington Post discussions – anything where there is a layer of editors between the person asking the question and the person answering it", adding: "Whenever they have someone go on a Washington Post chat, you’re getting a very filtered version of what the questions were."[6]

On August 4, 2008, the Online News Association announced that RawStory.com was a finalist in the 2008 Online Journalism awards in the "Investigative, Small Site" category for the story "The permanent Republican majority", about improper partisan influence in the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama.[7][8]

An August 2017 study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society found that between May 1, 2015 and November 7, 2016, The Raw Story was the fourth and fifth most popular left-wing news source on Twitter and Facebook, respectively. The study also found that The Raw Story was the 9th most shared media source on Twitter by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 United States presidential election.[9]

Content

In 2005, the site was described by Newsweek as: "Muck, raked: If you're looking for alleged GOP malfeasance, the folks at rawstory.com are frequently scooping the mainstream media."[10] In 2014, then-executive editor Tony Ortega described The Raw Story's editorial mission as trying to "expose" people "who try to exploit American ideas about fair play and equality by rigging things through their immense wealth or their discriminatory cultural myopia."[11]

In November 2008, The Raw Story reported that the United Mine Workers of America, which had endorsed Barack Obama's presidential campaign, had come to Obama's defense after John McCain's presidential campaign criticized him for a comment he had made about coal to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle earlier that January.[12] Environmental journalist Andrew Revkin cited the Raw Story article in a post he wrote for The New York Times' Dot Earth blog, and Curtis Brainard, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, described the article as "well-done".[13]

In February 2016, The Raw Story reported that Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly had lost custody of his children because he had physically abused their mother; the article was cited by Occupy Democrats later that May. Snopes determined that the Gawker article cited by The Raw Story had reported that O'Reilly had lost custody of his children, but did not suggest that O'Reilly had lost custody due to violent behavior.[14]

In October 2017, a fake news story spread that falsely claimed that chief deputy for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office was a white supremacist who wanted "to rape and kill a black man or a Jew.” The false story was picked up by The Raw Story under the headline, “Top Florida law enforcement official plotted to abduct, rape and murder ‘a black man or a Jew.’” The Raw Story eventually took the story down without explanation and denied to comment on the matter. Tim Wise, who shared the The Raw Story on Facebook, vowed to never share from The Raw Story again due to their failure to fact-check.[15]

In December 2017, The Raw Story published an article based on a CNN report which mistakenly stated that on September 4, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. had received a website and a decryption key to preview the emails from the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak before they were made public by WikiLeaks; the date was later corrected by CNN to September 14, 2016, which was after the emails had been reported on publicly. The Raw Story did not include the correction in its article.[16]

On February 19, 2018, The Raw Story published a report claiming that Russian trolls co-opting the Me Too movement had forced Minnesota senator Al Franken to resign, and that an article by writer Ijeoma Oluo had been used as part of the campaign.[17][18] Oluo told Snopes that her article had been published after Franken had announced his resignation, adding: "I was hoping that the piece would give people context and help people grow from all of this into a better place."[17] The Raw Story later retracted its report.[18]

During the 2020 United States presidential election, The Raw Story published an article on November 4, 2020 which claimed that the United States Postal Service (USPS) had failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida. PolitiFact determined that the figure was based on a misreading of Postal Service data, and the USPS stated that it had skipped some steps to get ballots to election offices faster.[19]

The Columbia Journalism Review categorizes The Raw Story as a clickbait website.[20]

Management

File:Raw Story 10 year logo.jpg
Raw Story anniversary logo, 2014

According to the site's masthead, as of May 2021, the editor and publisher is Roxanne Cooper. Other editors include Eric W. Dolan, managing editor, and senior editors David Edwards, Travis Gettys, and Sarah Burris.[21]

Raw Story Media, Inc.

Raw Story is wholly owned by Raw Story Media, Inc.

  • John K. Byrne – founder, chairman and CEO, partner
  • Michael Rogers – vice chairman and managing director, partner

Raw Story partners John K. Byrne and Michael Rogers announced on April 2, 2018, that they had acquired AlterNet via a newly created company "AlterNet Media." Byrne stated, "AlterNet will continue to carry content from the Independent Media Institute, its prior owner, and former AlterNet writers may appear with Independent Media Institute bylines.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ HTML <title> tag on homepage as at 10 December 2016: http://rawstory.com
  2. ^ Dapcevich, Madison (July 16, 2020). "Did Missouri Schools Require Parents Sign COVID-19 'Death' Waivers?". Snopes. Retrieved June 24, 2021. The focus on the word "death" came from an article published by online tabloid Raw Story{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b O'Reilly, Lara (April 10, 2018). "CMO Today: Zuckerberg's Congress Hearing; P&G to Build Cross-Holding Company Creative Agency; Movie Theaters Go Upmarket". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  4. ^ Grinapo, Corinne (July 21, 2017). "Raw Story Joins the Washington-Baltimore News Guild as Management Voluntarily Recognizes Its Union". Ad Week. Retrieved June 24, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "About Us & Masthead". The Raw Story. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
  6. ^ "Interview with John Byrne: Editor and Founder of Rawstory.com". Mother Jones. June 29, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Alexandrovna, Larisa; Kane, Muriel (November 18, 2002). "The permanent Republican majority". The Raw Story. Archived from the original on December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  8. ^ Online News Association (August 4, 2008). "2008 Online Journalism Awards – Finalists". Archived from the original on August 8, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
  9. ^ Faris, Robert M.; Roberts, Hal; Etling, Bruce; Bourassa, Nikki; Zuckerman, Ethan; Benkler, Yochai (August 16, 2017). "Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Harvard Library. ISSN 3375-9251. Retrieved June 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "BlogWatch". Newsweek. March 21, 2005.
  11. ^ Staff, Capital (March 4, 2014). "The 60-Second Interview: Tony Ortega, Executive Editor, The Raw Story". Politico. Retrieved June 24, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Juliano, Nick (November 3, 2008). "Miners' union: McCain camp 'twisting the truth' on Obama, coal". The Raw Story. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  13. ^ Brainard, Curtis (November 4, 2008). "Coal's Curtain Call". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved June 24, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ LaCapria, Kim (May 11, 2016). "Bill O'Reilly Loses Custody Battle Due to Domestic Violence?". Snopes. Retrieved June 24, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ Mower, Lawrence (November 18, 2017). "Story labeling PBSO chief deputy as racist is fake news". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved June 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Benkler, Yochai; Faris, Robert; Roberts, Hal (2018). "Mainstream Media Failure Modes and Self-Healing in a Propaganda-Rich Environment". Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624. ISBN 978-0-19-092366-2.
  17. ^ a b Palma, Bethania (February 20, 2018). "Did 'Bots' Force Al Franken to Resign?". Snopes. Retrieved June 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ a b Ingram, Matthew (February 21, 2018). "The media today: Are Russian trolls behind everything?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved June 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Greenberg, Jon (November 5, 2020). "Claim that postal service failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida is 100% wrong". PolitiFact. Retrieved June 24, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "CJR index of fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites". Colombia Journalism Review. Retrieved June 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "Masthead". RawStory.com. The Raw Story. September 15, 2010. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  22. ^ Byrne, John (April 9, 2018). "It's a new day for AlterNet". AlterNet. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
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