It should be a routine practice for them so readers can reach their own conclusions, or at least read with a skeptical eye.

What are your most trusted sources of journalism, out of curiosity?

They all have a distinct world-view lens, and don't pretend that they don't, which is far healthier and honest than "neutral" journalism, since there's never any such thing.

Haven't listened to Hartmann in a while but I used to listen to him and Randi Rhodes, Maddow too. I don't watch enough, but Amy Goodman always seems awesome.

For investigative reporting and reporting of facts, the major institutions are still incredibly important in this way. While their biases are implicit in what they cover and how they cover it, they tend to protect their credibility as much as possible, so the actual facts being reported are likely to be solidly vetted, given that they have the manpower to do so. The facts that require much more nuanced understanding than a soundbite though, those seem far less important, so long as one presentation of "the facts" can simply be categorized as that person's personal analysis.

The intercept is not something I follow directly and I think it also wears some biases on its sleeve, some of which I'm not comfortable with, but as an independent source(or if not that, as a counter-establishment source of journalism) I'd say it definitely has its value.

Never checked out the Minority Report or the Humanist Report. Will review their work sometime.

As for the Intercept, I've soured on Glenn Greenwald. Is he still an active contributor?

reaffirming what I have been saying and seeing for the last decade . Flunked Retirement five different times and worked those Part-Time considered full time jobs that are considered now full time.

Know of what you speak,volunteered last year at a Senior Center doing the same Tax Helper,every thing I suspected was bore out in fact.

These are the ones that work in non-temperature controlled buildings for minimum wages as contractors for third parties for "logistic" companies that don't even have their own employees. It's all a shell game. They keep moving them around away from the reporters while they build these big shiny warehouses here and there. There is a reason for all these "employment agencies" that hire people for temp work with low wages and no benefits.

Too often they rely on appeals to authority: "Oh, they have a team of journalists on this, you can't argue with the WaPo and its impeccable journalistic standards" etc. etc.

Anyone who lays claim to absolute "fact" on debatable issues is setting themselves up for a fall except among those who have a vested interest - whatever that may be - in accepting their opinion, because so often that's all it is. In this case, the overriding motivation seems to be that everything's fine and how dare anyone challenge the status quo? There are many, many facts out there that need checking. Devaluing the practice with partisan claims to "fact" does nobody any favors and just muddies the field even further. A cynic might say that's the intention.

I recall Kessler dishing out a number of Pinocchios to President Obama during his term which were highly questionable (I was an active blogger at the the time on quite a popular US site, and conducted a number of counter-fact checks which were far more grounded in reality).

In his most recent "fact check", Kessler had the good grace to admit "The answer is not easily found." He then conveniently reframed the argument in his own terms in a way that furthered his own argument.

He also added "Disclosure: Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, owns The Washington Post."

A simple acknowledgment of that isn't a "Get out of jail free card". It was used as a prelude to choosing the most favorable interpretation to Amazon.

Doing their job holding politicians accountable?

You have issues with that?

Gotcha.

And that ignore feature can save you the distress of my "tiresome rhetoric" and "simplistic, self-serving negative gloss."

You're welcome.

Thanks for posting.

... and extra credit for your "volunteer tax work."
Helping low-income folks makes you a good American!