RawStory

Rawstory used to just be lots of news aggregation with stories rewritten from other news sites. I was impressed when they hired some good journalists a couple of years ago. Some of the stories about Congress and crazy extremists got as good as what you'd see in the New York Times. But it's gotten thin again lately and back to mostly aggregate news and predictable opinion pieces from tired voices. Two of the best Rawstory writers, Mark Alesia and Dave Levinthal, appear to have left recently. Their departures are unfortunate. I'm not renewing my subscription when it's up next month.

Designed to rile up us left – leaners, this supposed new site is full of Clickbait headlines, fake stories that they remove later, and riddled with grammatical errors. Hardly a trusted news source. As a former journalist, I'm appalled. I've attached a sample of one of their Clickbait headlines. Oh, and you probably can't read that article unless you pay. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

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.

Every time I go to the site I get a pop up saying my membership has expired. So now you have to pay to read their crappy articles.

I take my time to research subjects especially when it sounds fishy. When you are a tabloid that is so one sided it's impossible to get factual information. They seem to go hand and hand wiht occupy democrats which either flat out lies or tells half truths at best. Folks the end doesn't justify the means and poor inaccurate journalism is disgraceful.

I don't think I have ever read more unethical sleazy articles than what these low sc--m newspapers put out.

Don't believe the Koolaid crowd reviews. They are truthers and fact deniers. This is a very good source of real news and smart commentary!

Typos galore, gotcha titles of articles that don't reflect the title,
And sometimes, poor writing. After alerting them to typos a year ago, no change at all.

Can Raw Story find someone or something other than TRUMP to write about? Every damn story is about him, Come-on, REALLY?

If you are female, don't go here. I didn't like the P*ssy expletive. When I complained, my comment was removed.

Have found that raw story is like so many so-called liberal news sites, they ban u if u post anything that doesn't toe the party line, ie posting anything negative about israel, or illegals. Not all dems are cookie cutter dems. I got banned, so good riddance to typo riddled, cutting and pasting fr other news sites. I go to the guardian news now

Raw Story (sometimes RAWSTORY) is a progressive website. It not only reports on breaking news within minutes from when stories are published elsewhere, but importantly they also provide summaries of the article in addition links to the original. This is especially helpful since they cover news on subscription websites like The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

Across the top of the page on the left are trending stories, in the center are stories that editors deem to be the most significant, and on the right breaking news.

Not only that, they cross publish many articles from Salon which is free to read but doesn't have a comments section while Raw Story does. Thus readers are able to comment on Salon stories. The Raw Story Disqus comment section enables readers to use bold, italics, etc. and post illustrations. There are often spirited debates in the comment sections and snarky illustrated posts. An example of these shown below.

Raw Story owns AlterNet and also cross publishes their stories.

Over the past year they have added more columnists such as David Edwards, Travis Getty, Sarah Burris, and Tom Boggioni. They write thought provoking essays. They also recently hired staff reporters who cover Capitol Hill and report on interviews with politicians.

They publish stories from the Agence France-Presse wire service.

You can sign up for a free daily email newsletter.

Raw Story + Exclusives is a subscription part of the website which includes Raw Story Investigates. It costs $49 a year or $79 annually for a version with no ads. I have the former.

Total unreliable left extremism lacking any hard facts. They pick and choose quotes and mischaracterize what people actually say. Tabloids have more credibility than this rag.

They have serious TDS... President Trump lives rent free in there puny brains. Lets Go Brandon... FJB

NO one takes these people and their 4th grade education level nonsensical fiction seriously. They are universally scoffed at and ridiculed as total garbage,. Theyve faced HUNDREDS of fines and forced retractions

A few months ago Raw story started posting partial articles lifted from other websites. I contacted them as to why they were posting click-bait partial articles they never got permission to actually print. "Roxanne" responded:
"That is a snippet of a wire story we have permission to reprint, through a service called Nordot. The reason why you see that "Read more" link at the end of the article is because the original publisher of the article gets paid when you click on the link. "

I did not see the 'read more' link until I turned off ad-block. To read the rest of just one article 'Nordot' forces users to turn off ALL AD block software and also has 33 trackers ON TOP OF the website you are referred to. A user must give up their right to privacy AND allow all invasive pop-up and pop-over ads from the website that has the original story (usually smaller unknown often shady sources I would never allow to put trackers on my computer).

Raw story takes news, turns the title into click-bait, then re-posts partial article with very invasive to use link SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A CENT FOR THE STORIES THEY LIFT. Notdot says partial articles with the shady link is free to other websites. Nordot has a full article option but Raw Story apparently thinks it is better to force users to give up their privacy to whatever website had an article a RS writer/re-poster twisted into click-bait.

Raw Story assembles headlines from various and mostly mainstream news agencies. It is pro US democracy. I consider it to be a news service that shares articles and videos whose sources are clearly identified. Raw story allows access to content that might otherwise only be available by subscription and has links to the sources (which may or may not require a subscription.) I support Raw Story for this reason.

I'm giving Rawstory 3stars for content. But because there billing department sucks balls it does not get 5 stars. I have no issues with its content. It's a left leaning site. If you go to a right leaning site you get the same.
But my issue goes back 6 months. I was paying for a subscription and still had ads. It took me 2 months to get someone to answer me. Then when his suggestions didn't work I still had the same problem, but was getting billed twice a month. I email and email with no reply. Then finally got a reply. I had stopped going into my account. I wanted all my money back since at least August. They refused. I kept asking to cancel and no reply. This girl that did reply last week just started. Refused to turn me over to someone with more clout and had worked longer. Told me she has now canceled me but no $ back at all. So they received at least 2 or 3 months double payments and then from August through Nov as well payment for something I did not use.
Therefore they are an unethical company.
I couldn't believe it. They stand for justice. Just not with there own company.
They want to steal my hard earned $ durning a pandemic from a single mom with a special needs child well, it's not something big enough to sue them. But I can sure blast them everywhere I have a chance too.
My last straw was this girl. She tried to dismiss me over and over. She showed me.
Here are payments made and I didn't even post all the photos.