William W.

I've been visiting RawStory for a while. First and foremost, its business model is built around generating clickbait. Stories are often embellished into one-sided narratives that are clumsily summarized into headlines specifically worded to draw views from a particular segment of the politically-active population. 95% of the articles aren't about issues, but rather focus on what the rotten Republican bogeymen have done today, with a particular emphasis placed on Trump. As someone who is fairly left-leaning and anti-Trump myself, I can straight up state that it's overboard even for my tastes.

The comment section is about as nasty an echo chamber as you're going to find. Don't you dare dip your foot in the comments if you have a point of disagreement with some of what's being said or if you aren't an ardent anti-theist -- RSers love their religion bashing and are more than willing to tell you where you can shove your belief in God if you don't toe their line, even if you agree with them on practically everything else. Religion is the root of all problems, at least in the RSer mind.

There are much better left-leaning blogs and news aggregators out there. RawStory is full of the type of leftist readership that's willing to defenestrate all ability to accomplish the supposedly vital aims to which it pays desperate lip service, just so long as it's allowed to rest in its smug self-satisfied beliefs with a minimum of push back.