The Atlantic doesn't deserve to be nearly that high; they're a Vox-tier (sub-HuffPo) advertorial garbage house monentizing out the last gasp of their dead brand

The Atlantic doesn't deserve to be nearly that high; they're a Vox-tier (sub-HuffPo) advertorial garbage house monentizing out the last gasp of their dead brand's reputation. To complicate your linear model of news quality, the National Enquirer routinely publishes batshit nonsense ("Rafael Cruz murdered JFK" and "Scalia was assassinated by a hooker", recently) and has also broken several major real stories nobody else would touch. The Graunaid is even harder to fit on your line; decent-quality and mostly worth reading agitprop from an unapologetically specific slant that rejects objective truth as some sort of bourgeoisie conspiracy. The only thing worse than ignoring them is believing them uncritically. Bias itself is a bad model; everyone's slanted, not everyone is worth reading.