Oh dear Readers, Listeners, and Friends. I have a confession to make. I'm so sorry. I just __ HAD__ to do it. I couldn't help myself . . . .
I got an email from one of the self-annointed Arbiters of what is "news" and what is not: "NewsGuardTech.com."
It went something like this:
This is John Gregory, an editor at NewsGuard. We spoke in 2021 when NewsGuard published its Nutrition Label for HalTurnerRadioShow.com, rating it on the same nine criteria of credibility and transparency that we've applied to all of the news websites that account for 95 percent of online engagement in the U.S.
I'm now updating that rating and had questions about more recent content on the site. As always, we seek comments from the sites that we're rating out of fairness and for the benefit of readers.
I attached a PDF copy of your site's current rating to my previous email, but keep in mind it's due for an update.
Along with the questions I sent last year, which can be found in this same email thread, I had the following questions about articles published in the past year:
**SNIP**
I read his questions and decided almost instantly to send him the following reply:
Oh, so nice to hear from the self-annointed arbiters of what is "news" and what is not, again!
In the past, I took folks like you seriously. Now, however, at the ripe old age of 61, having suffered a Myocardial Infarction heart attack, undergone open heart surgery for Quadruple bypass of clogged heart arteries, only to suffer ANOTHER Myocardial Infarction heart attack 17 months later when two of the four bypasses clogged with blood clots, I have learned to not take seriously folks who do not matter.
You and your little web site, certainly fit in the category of "Does not matter."
For what it's worth, according to the third-party website ranking entity "SimilarWeb," my web site ranks 31,796 in the entire world. Yours ranks over ten times lower, at 445,105 in the world.
Here in the United States, my web site ranks 9,412 of all sites in the USA. Yours ranks over twenty times lower, at 260,303.
Out of "News Publishers in the United States," my site ranks 622 whereas your little group and its site rank far lower at 8,892.
Put simply, you are in no position at all to rate me. In fact, almost nobody pays any attention to you at all, as evidenced by your horrible web site performance.
Why would I waste time with a nobody like you? It's not as though you even try to be objective. You cherry pick stories, write your own OPINION about my coverage, then pass your OPINION off as if it is fact.
You're one of the information echo chambers that left-wingers use to circle-jerk each other.
Screen shots from Similarweb, showing your inferior status, attached.
Write back to me when you grow up or you start to matter.
Hal Turner
NEWSGUARD:
ME:
--
Hal Turner is an International Journalist / Reporter accredited through the United States Press Association, ID 33257. A News Photographer accredited through the International Association of Press Photographers, ID 36626. He is also a Radio Talk Show Host Accredited through US Press Corps, ID A2325TUR and a Member of the Society of Professional Journalists, ID 10000451.
Now, I know it is not very becoming of me to brag like this. I am so very sorry. I hope you can forgive me. Perhaps having what many people have described as "the most-listened-to talk radio show on Global, High-Frequency radio" has gone to my head.
I'll try to be more humble.
