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That's actually not too difficult to answer.

Come up with some objective criteria. For example:

1. How factual do the articles tend to be?
2. How inflammatory does the language of the articles tend to be (ie: How much do they inform vs manipulate readers) ?

There is at least one site that I know of that is attempting to do exactly this. http://www.adfontesmedia.com/

According to that, Washington Post is doing pretty good. A hell of a lot better than Fox is, at any rate.

Of course, this means nothing if you care more about justifying your personal opinions rather than basing your opinions off of objective facts.

I know that, having seen this site, I now view articles from HuffPo with a lot more skepticism than I used to, and I preferentially prefer articles from the sources in the green square.

Can you say the same?

We know for sure the Chinese did.

Do we??? From your own fucking source:

“The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised,” an FBI official told the Washington Examiner.

Additionally, the Examiner article's primary source for the claim that China did anything is an article by the Daily Caller News Foundation, which is itself repeating a claim made by an unnamed source that provided no actual evidence. The Daily Caller, you'll recall, is deep within the hyper-partisan conservative "nonsense damaging to public discourse" quadrant of the media bias chart.

You've effectively just cited as truth the news equivalent of "Well I heard from Marsha (ugh, she's such a gossip), who heard from her boyfriend who lives in Canada who we've never met but she says is totally chill, that Kim Jong Un secretly is going steady with Theresa May."

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/... The primary affect of attacking media institutions is to cultivate the idea that all media is "fake" or "biased" and that none can be "trusted". The distortion is dangerous because it removes a vital check on government power and without it, allows corruption. Moreover, this distortion allows citizens to confirm their own bias by consuming the news that fits their worldview while branding contrary news as "fake". This is not true. Not all news is biased, fake, or untrustworthy. Stop repeating this. This is exactly what politicians want you to believe and they are succeeding when you go around spewing this nonsense. Get this "idea" out of your head. It's not true and it is the root cause of atrocities throughout history.

I'm far more likely to believe a news source that can admit their mistakes than one that asserts they're right more than anyone. The link shared by the AC is nice, but let's link to the source instead, as they do explain the reasoning behind what goes where. NPR is probably the most reliable news source I can follow in these days, and they flat out tell you (or at least my local member station tells its listeners) to consume news from multiple outlets to get varying reads on the stories.

FYI, this discussion made me curious to see if there are anything like 'rankings' for news sources, and I came upon this very interesting site:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

They do very detailed content-based analysis and are responsible for what is apparently a now very well cited graph. (https://www.adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Media-Bias-Chart_4.0_8_28_2018-min.jpg)

It's interesting cause they go into depth regarding their methodology and it seems pretty solid.

Incidentally, NYT is categorized as "slightly left leaning" and "factual".

It doesn't surprise me that an Anon coward completely misrepresents what was cited.

Perhaps you're genuinely just unable to read a chart, but the media bias chart linked puts InfoWars under the "Most Extreme Right" category, labeled "Contains inaccurate/fabricated info" and "Nonsense damaging to public discourse".

Sure, using support for Democratic politicians as a proxy for leftward lean: "Google employees are spending heavily to elect Democrats in California and to flip the House" and it's not a recent thing, "98% of search engine's employees gave money to Democrats in '04".

For the news sources, see 96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets and then you can confirm for yourself by going to Google News and either looking at their headlines or searching for any politically relevant topic and counting the number of sources they highlight first on the left vs. the right side of the media bias chart, which if anything underestimates sources like CNN which have turned farther left since the election.