Ground(ed) News

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

This website is awesome.

https://ground.news/

It's called Ground News, and you can take any story and check its bias and then compare it to other sources bias.

Like take a random story about a Trump EO, such as the following: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...r-pentagon

It will give you other versions of the same story. 

https://ground.news/article/trump-to-sig...war_bb7255

But my favorite feature is the AI-generated bullet point example summary of the typical wording used by Left and Right sources in their articles.  

 Left bullet point wording: 

• President Donald Trump will sign an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War, reflecting the mission of military personnel, according to the White House.

• The renaming process is expected to be costly, as it involves changing names on various Pentagon materials.

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supports the name change, asserting that it aims to restore a 'warrior ethos' in the military.

• Legal and military analysts have criticized the rebranding, calling it a 'pointless distraction' and questioning its legality.

Right bullet point wording: 

• President Trump will sign an executive order on September 5, 2025, to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War, restoring its original title used until 1949.

• Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that the name change reflects a cultural shift at the Pentagon, emphasizing a focus on offensive military operations.

• The rebranding requires congressional approval for a permanent change, as noted by a White House official.

• The order signifies Trump's vision for military renaming as part of a broader 'warrior ethos' campaign.

Bias Comparison:

Left-Leaning outlets frame Trump’s move to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War with sharply negative rhetoric—labeling it “complete idiocy” and a reckless, costly distraction that fuels militarism, employing emotionally charged terms like “mocked” and “dumbest of times” to underscore disdain.

In stark contrast, right-leaning coverage champions the change as a proud restoration of U.S. military tradition, using affirming language like “warrior ethos” and viewing it as a strategic signal of strength and deterrence.

 

After the AI blurb it links all articles, who published them first, and which outlets republished those versions.

Which looks like this:







Love this site, which I could very well be the last person to find, but it's new enough and cool enough to me to share.

[Sirius]

Calling Satan's by it's name, I can respect this. Brave man

[putnam6]

For me, the best thing about Ground News is that it's not instantaneous, and you can read versions easily all together. 

I have one media subscription WaPo and I should drop it and get the full Ground News subscription, just to keep my eyes from getting stuck while rolling them as I read WaPo's op-ed


Just give me the facts, dammit 

Those same spin methods, slant  buzzwords, have made me loathe the media on all sides

[UltraBudgie]

Also useful is NewsSniffer, to track how news articles are stealthily-changed behind the scenes, eg:

https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/2831855/diff/6/7



Hey! Look's like they've pulled the trigger:



https://www.war.gov/

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

What about Department of War and National Sovereignty? 

And then if some hippie doesn't like the change or considers it militarization or something left, everyone can say they just have contracted, "DOWNS Syndrome" to go with The TDS. 

Bad joke. Bad acronym. I mmediately think of stock markets. The DOD as the DOW seems off.

My opinion, according to Ground News, resembles the rhetoric of the left... 

Ex: 

Why do we need to broadcast this bravado shit to the world? Why do we need to project a scary warrior mentality? Ready for War mentality? Even the outwardly wokest of US military could still destroy everyone.

Like China, Russia, and North Korea do that robotic parade and might demonstration shit because they have a massive inferiority complex to The USA. Nowhere near the 1 trillion dollar budget to keep up.... no matter how many condos they Ponzi.

But a need to project your power has rarely been a show of confidence when done. More bluff-like in use.  More dick-waving. 

So this site helps me confirm how on the left some of my opinions really are, even if they stay there.

[Quantum12]

Thanks IP for sharing this!

[quintessentone]

What about Department of War and National Sovereignty? 

And then if some hippie doesn't like the change or considers it militarization or something left, everyone can say they just have contracted, "DOWNS Syndrome" to go with The TDS. 

Bad joke. Bad acronym. I mmediately think of stock markets. The DOD as the DOW seems off.

My opinion, according to Ground News, resembles the rhetoric of the left... 

Ex: 

Why do we need to broadcast this bravado shit to the world? Why do we need to project a scary warrior mentality? Ready for War mentality? Even the outwardly wokest of US military could still destroy everyone.

Like China, Russia, and North Korea do that robotic parade and might demonstration shit because they have a massive inferiority complex to The USA. Nowhere near the 1 trillion dollar budget to keep up.... no matter how many condos they Ponzi.

But a need to project your power has rarely been a show of confidence when done. More bluff-like in use.  More dick-waving. 

So this site helps me confirm how on the left some of my opinions really are, even if they stay there.

Isn't it always old man limp dick waving and posturing?

[UltraBudgie]

Isn't it always old man limp dick waving and posturing?

Just a brief disagreement.

[SurferSoul]

Looks like Trump didn’t get the Orwellian memo, you’re supposed to invert things, not tell it how it is. What next? Renaming banks as debt creation enterprises?

[putnam6]

We are being "sold" the news instead of being told the facts

It's weird out of all the shit Trump says and does, and I mostly roll my eyes at how it's presented and packaged by the administration and the MSM response, but at least we know they are watching for any OMB malefeasance because of their open hostile opposition instead of the needed watchful guardianship 

Biden's administration was even worse, with a lack of availability for questions about what they were continually trying to sell the public. They kept circling back and stayed on message, and the MSM acceptance killed Biden's and thier last shred of credibility and integrity... as they were paid spokespersons for the DNC's 

It's the salesman in me; I know their "sales" presentation tactics. We expect our politicians to be a bit crooked, but the MSM was supposed to be the watchdogs, the guardians of the governmental policy and actions. Now they have chosen a side and they are playing for keeps

We almost had it after the "yellow journalism" period and after WWII, through the 70s. 

But the appeal of alternative sources like Rush and Drudge Report etc, led to alliances and partnerships with opposing political factions, as the effectiveness of repetitive journalism was soon realized. The Clintons understood this early on in Little Rock, even before Drudge blasted us with tales of the intern in the blue dress and the cigar-smoking President, and almost toppled a fairly popular President. It certainly heralded the Republican revival in the 90s and probably put Dubya's dangling "chad" in the White House.

9/11 interrupted that MSM dynamic and pendulum push for a little while, BUT the WMD, Haliburton, and the Cheney Presidency brought about a renewed hostile media approach for the common good of a growingly skeptical GP. But since then, MSM has been hijacked, bought, and bastardized by its political partnership and some say ownership by Hollyweird and NYC.

Thier role in pushing the COVID narrative instead of questioning it has destroyed their last remaining shred of credibility.

Which makes resources like Ground News essential...