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Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by sesqu on Saturday November 12, 2016 @11:57AM (#12938758)
> Is slate.com then a "real news source"?

Slate.com does not describe themselves as a news source, so apparently not. I've certainly never thought of them as informative.

I can't personally comment on Breitbart's content, but apparently a number of their employees quit earlier this year, believing that the site has lost its journalistic integrity since the death of Andrew Breitbart.

Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by giardini on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:02PM (#12939133)
Your post got me searching: I found a Washington Post article with a nice analysis and a left-right scale of common news sources. Both slate and breitbart are outliers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/le...

Time to update my news reading preferences!

Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by sesqu on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:55PM (#12939497)
Some of those surprise me. I would have expected to see sources like NYT and NPR as more popular with the right than sources like MSNBC and Huffington Post.

edit: I suppose there might be a selection effect. The large networks are watched by everyone, and the smaller ones are sought out.