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Reason: To add information that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas founded his own polling and analytics company. This is important because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what Daily Kos does in terms of political activities -- in this instance, commissioning political polling to provide their readers with insight into what Americans think about certain political issues and candidates. It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs.
There are many Wikipedia pages that share similar information or sections. Even though information about Civiqs is on Markos' Wikipedia page, seeing as Markos also owns Daily Kos, which has a relationship with Civiqs, it would make sense to explain Daily Kos' relationship to Civiqs here as well.
Regarding your concerns about the sources, Markos is well known to give his email address and other contact information to many people that he meets, and it is not necessarily an indicator of his closeness with someone. Additionally, it is unclear why it is an issue to directly cite the webpage of the website that explains what the company itself does.
Meow panda ( talk) 21:12, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what Daily Kos does in terms of political activitiesPlease elaborate upon what it is, about that better understanding, which requires this cross promotion to be needed in the article?
It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs.Please explain what it is, about that relationship between the two entities, which requires them to be cross-promoted in the article beyond the fact that the subject own them both — a fact which has already been placed in the subject's article. If the connection between the two companies is as important as the two companies claim that it is, please provide a reference to this fact which is unconnected to either of the companies and which was not provided by the subject company's owner himself in a quasi-press release-type interview with BuzzFeed's Mr. Smith, the acquaintance who has known the subject "from the small world of political blogs, just a little, for years". When ready to proceed with the requested information, kindly change the
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Reason: To add information that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas founded his own polling and analytics company. This is important because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what kind of work Daily Kos specifically does in terms of political activities -- in this instance, commissioning political polling to provide their readers with insight into what Americans think about certain political issues and candidates. It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs, which should be cross-posted for transparency and to provide the understanding that they are owned by the same individual, but are separate entities that do business with one another. Additionally, it explains where Daily Kos pulls their polling data from, which they use in news articles, press releases, etc.
Meow panda ( talk) 14:24, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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There is an important section on Markos Moulitsas’ Wikipedia page that isn’t on this page for some reason:
"Since its creation Daily Kos has grown to become the largest liberal community blog in the United States, with over 2.3 million registered users and 8 million unique viewers per month as of July 2018. [1]
The blog's popularity has attracted the attention of many Democratic senators, members of Congress, governors and candidates who have posted on the site, including Senators John Kerry [2] and Barbara Boxer, [3] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [4] Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, [5] former President Jimmy Carter, [6] and former President Barack Obama. [7]"
Please add to: New section about growth
Reason for adding to this page: This is relevant information that exists on Markos Moulitsas' Wikipedia page, but is very relevant (or even more so) to this page given that it is directly about Daily Kos. These paragraphs discuss the growth of the website and detail important political figures who have participated on the site, thus providing a better understanding of the kinds of voices that Daily Kos has been a platform for in the American political sphere since its creation.
Meow panda ( talk) 20:25, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Daily Kos doesn't claim to be "center left" anymore. They're more of a "third way" or even center-right website now, and they even criticize ideas and figures that are too "left".
Most of their main topics and stances these days are not "left" on any spectrum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:AA4A:5E00:2DA8:2424:A975:CA6C ( talk) 09:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Davidgarcia84 et al: I've removed the disputed phrasing entirely, as it's redundant; the site is already characterized as focusing on "liberal American politics" later in the same sentence. That characterization is sourced, reasonable, and does not contradict content from the rest of the article. warmly, ezlev. talk 23:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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It should be noted here, that the site is Maoist. 139.138.6.121 ( talk) 17:18, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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New section: "Advocacy" Daily Kos is involved in progressive advocacy, and regularly organizes people to make phone calls and send letters to their elected officials on a variety of issues and legislation. The organization also delivers petitions to elected officials' offices. [1]
Using as a reference:
"About Us". Daily Kos. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
-- Meow panda ( talk) 20:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Note: The above edit request was declined. The below is a new addition, so I've reopened the request.
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Use as a reference: [2]
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I've removed a "guest blogger" section sourced entirely to the website. Frankly this article on the whole suffers from improper reliance on sourcing not indepdent of the website, and this leads to a promotional tone. Coretheapple ( talk) 17:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
Added sources describing its political leaning: [3] 2601:547:500:E930:25AE:536A:32D0:6E91 ( talk) 01:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Here they are: -- Hipal ( talk) 17:59, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
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The Daily Kos (DailyKos.com) is a left-leaning political blog that has posted articles that are critical of Romney or put him in a bad light.
This list includes outlets that are commonly believed to span the ideological spectrum, with the two blogs constituing the likely endpoints (Daily Kos on the left, and Breitbart on the right)... For example, the Breitbart News Network is the most right-leaning outlet, and the Daily Kos is the most left-leaning outlet in our set.
As the founder of the left-leaning Daily Kos, the largest political blog in the country, did you find it hard to write "Crashing the Gate," an actual book, as opposed to your usual raw and episodic three-sentence musings?
For each day in our sample, we also collect ed stories from four other Internet news sources: the wire services' own "top news" pages, Fox News Channel's political news feed, and the front pages of the conservative blog Free Republic and liberal blog Daily Kos... Daily Kos on the left and Free Republic and Fox News on the right demonstrate clear and strong preferences for news stories that benefit the party most closely associated with their own ideological orientations.
left-leaning: Huffington Post, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, the Guardian, and Raw Story
This effect is even more pronounced for left-leaning sources like Slate, Buzzfeed, Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post... on the left, among progressive news and commentary sources such as Huffington Post and Daily Kos.
and the left-leaning Daily Kos... The left-leaning publications include newspapers from liberal areas, such as the San Francisco Chronicle and the NewYork Times, as well as blogs such as the Huffington Post and Daily Kos;
newer left-activist sites like the Daily Kos... while sites on the left, like the Daily Kos, emphasized...
According to figures compiled by Daily Kos Elections, a left-leaning website
according to left-leaning Daily Kos Elections' new Special Elections Index
But so did Daily Kos, a far-left site
the Daily Kos on the left
On the left, a handful of prominent blogs (e.g. Daily Kos) and online-only news organizations (e.g. Huffington Post)
Daily Kos and firedoglake on the left
I'll be removing this from the lede if no one can demonstrate that this information is of the very highest notability. -- Hipal ( talk) 17:08, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes. |
I’m starting a new request with suggestions to improve this article. I believe it addresses the numerous problems with past edit requests, like the improper use of primary sourcing and promotional language. My conflict of interest is noted on this Talk Page already. Thanks.
A. Please update the two paragraphs of the lead. This is mostly clean-up of improper citations. I very slightly rewrote the lead for concision, and replaced the primary sourcing, as well as sources that aren’t allowed by Wikipedia (like the PBS Q&A and Daily Kos article) with articles from New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, which are considered reliable sources by Wikipedia. I replaced the New York Times Martin article and Bloomberg article because neither source supported the cited information. I also added “progressive” to the lead, with a supporting source from the New York Times that states Daily Kos is a “progressive” blog. Additionally, I removed “glossaries and other content” from the site description since it’s not supported by the sources. Instead I provided specifics about the site’s polling and campaign data, which is supported by reliable sources. I added articles from Rolling Stone and Politico as references for the “netroots activism” sentence. I also added short ref names for all reliable sources, which had been missing from this article.
From this:
Daily Kos ( /koʊz/ KOHZ) [1] is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party [2] [3] and liberal American politics. [4] [5] [6] The site includes glossaries and other content. It is sometimes considered an example of " netroots" activism.
Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military. [7]
To this:
Daily Kos ( /koʊz/ KOHZ) is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and progressive [8] liberal American politics. [9] [10] The site publishes blog posts, [11] polls, [12] election and campaign fundraising data, [10] [13] and is considered an example of " netroots" activism. [14] [15]
Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military. [10] [11]
B. Change Organizational overview to History and remove the subsections titles Fundraising and Viewership and Reception.
Reason: I’m proposing this change to help better organize this article to match Wikipedia section headers of similar articles such as Billboard (magazine) and Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser, both ranked GAs. “The usual practice is to order sections based on the precedent of similar articles.” MOS:SNO
C. In the new History section, add as the first paragraph:
Daily Kos was founded in May 2002 by Markos Moulitsas in Berkeley, California. [9] [11]
Reason: This information is currently missing from the History section. Changed the previous language to focus on a standard part of an organization’s history - the founder.
D. In the new History section, replace the current the second paragraph (now the first paragraph under the “Funding subsection”: Currently, the source used is from the Daily Kos, which is primary and not supported by Wikipedia sourcing standards. I rewrote the sentence to remove all primary sourcing/attribution, to reflect the information provided by supporting sources, and to better match Wikipedia sentence style. Adds Politico and The New York Times as reliable sources.
From this:
According to Daily Kos, its finances are sustained through lead generation, sponsored content, fundraising, and donations from readers and supporters who have signed up to receive joint petition emails from Daily Kos. [16]
To this:
The Daily Kos is funded by advertising, [17] [15] fundraising, and donations. citation needed
E. Replace this paragraph in the new History section (currently the second paragraph under “Funding”) that says:
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the Kos Media received between $1 million and $2 million in federally-backed small business loans from Newtek Small Business Finance as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The organization said it would help them retain 86 employees. [18] [19]
With:
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Daily Kos owner Kos Media LLC received $1.4 million in federally-backed small business loans from Newtek Small Business Finance as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. [18] [19]
Reason: Updates the first sentence to correct the amount of money from the PPP loan, adds PPP internal link, and removes the broken link for Newtek Small Business Finance. I also removed the second sentence “The organization said it would help them retain 86 employees” - that declaration from the organization was not stated in either source.
F. In the new History section, before the paragraph that starts “In an October 2018
Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations…”
Add:
In 2018, the Daily Kos launched Civiqs, a division of the blog that provides political polling data from volunteer participants. [20] [21] [22]
Reason: I’ve changed the language and added independent secondary references, as requested by a previous editor. Civiqs is a substantial division of Daily Kos that provides polling data cited in national and local media outlets including Slate, [20] National Review [23] and the San Antonio Express-News. [21] A couple, supporting, non-biased or connected sources that mention Daily Kos’s Civiqs division and the relationship include the San Antonio Express News and Topeka Capital-Journal, cited in the addition above.
G. After the paragraph that starts “In an October 2018
Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations…”, please add a new paragraph:
In 2019 Prism, an independent, non-profit publication focused on covering injustice from the perspective of underrepresented groups, became an affiliate publication of the Daily Kos. [24] [25]
Reason for adding: The addition of Prism as an affiliate of Daily Kos was reported by top publications that cover the world of journalism.
H. In the “Polling” subsection, please add as a new third paragraph:
The Daily Kos Elections tracked redistricting in the United States, [26] forecasted Electoral College results, [27] and provided polling data for elections. [28] [29]
References
Now, there are guidelines. Obviously you have the usual sexist, racist type of things, but it's also a Democratic site. So if Republicans want to come in and create trouble, they're not going to last very long.
Daily Kos has always been, and will always be, a Democratic site.
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Meow panda ( talk) 19:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
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Please add to the section "Nonpartisan polling":
Extended content
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Using as a reference:
References
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Reason: To add information that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas founded his own polling and analytics company. This is important because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what Daily Kos does in terms of political activities -- in this instance, commissioning political polling to provide their readers with insight into what Americans think about certain political issues and candidates. It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs.
There are many Wikipedia pages that share similar information or sections. Even though information about Civiqs is on Markos' Wikipedia page, seeing as Markos also owns Daily Kos, which has a relationship with Civiqs, it would make sense to explain Daily Kos' relationship to Civiqs here as well.
Regarding your concerns about the sources, Markos is well known to give his email address and other contact information to many people that he meets, and it is not necessarily an indicator of his closeness with someone. Additionally, it is unclear why it is an issue to directly cite the webpage of the website that explains what the company itself does.
Meow panda ( talk) 21:12, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what Daily Kos does in terms of political activitiesPlease elaborate upon what it is, about that better understanding, which requires this cross promotion to be needed in the article?
It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs.Please explain what it is, about that relationship between the two entities, which requires them to be cross-promoted in the article beyond the fact that the subject own them both — a fact which has already been placed in the subject's article. If the connection between the two companies is as important as the two companies claim that it is, please provide a reference to this fact which is unconnected to either of the companies and which was not provided by the subject company's owner himself in a quasi-press release-type interview with BuzzFeed's Mr. Smith, the acquaintance who has known the subject "from the small world of political blogs, just a little, for years". When ready to proceed with the requested information, kindly change the
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01:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Please add to the section "Nonpartisan polling":
Extended content
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Using as a reference:
References
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Reason: To add information that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas founded his own polling and analytics company. This is important because it provides Wikipedia readers with a better understanding of what kind of work Daily Kos specifically does in terms of political activities -- in this instance, commissioning political polling to provide their readers with insight into what Americans think about certain political issues and candidates. It also explains the relationship between Daily Kos and Civiqs, which should be cross-posted for transparency and to provide the understanding that they are owned by the same individual, but are separate entities that do business with one another. Additionally, it explains where Daily Kos pulls their polling data from, which they use in news articles, press releases, etc.
Meow panda ( talk) 14:24, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. Some or all of the changes may be promotional in tone. |
There is an important section on Markos Moulitsas’ Wikipedia page that isn’t on this page for some reason:
"Since its creation Daily Kos has grown to become the largest liberal community blog in the United States, with over 2.3 million registered users and 8 million unique viewers per month as of July 2018. [1]
The blog's popularity has attracted the attention of many Democratic senators, members of Congress, governors and candidates who have posted on the site, including Senators John Kerry [2] and Barbara Boxer, [3] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [4] Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, [5] former President Jimmy Carter, [6] and former President Barack Obama. [7]"
Please add to: New section about growth
Reason for adding to this page: This is relevant information that exists on Markos Moulitsas' Wikipedia page, but is very relevant (or even more so) to this page given that it is directly about Daily Kos. These paragraphs discuss the growth of the website and detail important political figures who have participated on the site, thus providing a better understanding of the kinds of voices that Daily Kos has been a platform for in the American political sphere since its creation.
Meow panda ( talk) 20:25, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
References
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Regards, Spintendo 22:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Daily Kos doesn't claim to be "center left" anymore. They're more of a "third way" or even center-right website now, and they even criticize ideas and figures that are too "left".
Most of their main topics and stances these days are not "left" on any spectrum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:AA4A:5E00:2DA8:2424:A975:CA6C ( talk) 09:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Davidgarcia84 et al: I've removed the disputed phrasing entirely, as it's redundant; the site is already characterized as focusing on "liberal American politics" later in the same sentence. That characterization is sourced, reasonable, and does not contradict content from the rest of the article. warmly, ezlev. talk 23:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
References
It should be noted here, that the site is Maoist. 139.138.6.121 ( talk) 17:18, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Please add:
New section: "Advocacy" Daily Kos is involved in progressive advocacy, and regularly organizes people to make phone calls and send letters to their elected officials on a variety of issues and legislation. The organization also delivers petitions to elected officials' offices. [1]
Using as a reference:
"About Us". Daily Kos. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
-- Meow panda ( talk) 20:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Note: The above edit request was declined. The below is a new addition, so I've reopened the request.
ezlev
tlk
ctrbs
20:55, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Use as a reference: [2]
-- Meow panda ( talk) 20:51, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
References
I've removed a "guest blogger" section sourced entirely to the website. Frankly this article on the whole suffers from improper reliance on sourcing not indepdent of the website, and this leads to a promotional tone. Coretheapple ( talk) 17:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
Added sources describing its political leaning: [3] 2601:547:500:E930:25AE:536A:32D0:6E91 ( talk) 01:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Here they are: -- Hipal ( talk) 17:59, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
References
The Daily Kos (DailyKos.com) is a left-leaning political blog that has posted articles that are critical of Romney or put him in a bad light.
This list includes outlets that are commonly believed to span the ideological spectrum, with the two blogs constituing the likely endpoints (Daily Kos on the left, and Breitbart on the right)... For example, the Breitbart News Network is the most right-leaning outlet, and the Daily Kos is the most left-leaning outlet in our set.
As the founder of the left-leaning Daily Kos, the largest political blog in the country, did you find it hard to write "Crashing the Gate," an actual book, as opposed to your usual raw and episodic three-sentence musings?
For each day in our sample, we also collect ed stories from four other Internet news sources: the wire services' own "top news" pages, Fox News Channel's political news feed, and the front pages of the conservative blog Free Republic and liberal blog Daily Kos... Daily Kos on the left and Free Republic and Fox News on the right demonstrate clear and strong preferences for news stories that benefit the party most closely associated with their own ideological orientations.
left-leaning: Huffington Post, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, the Guardian, and Raw Story
This effect is even more pronounced for left-leaning sources like Slate, Buzzfeed, Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post... on the left, among progressive news and commentary sources such as Huffington Post and Daily Kos.
and the left-leaning Daily Kos... The left-leaning publications include newspapers from liberal areas, such as the San Francisco Chronicle and the NewYork Times, as well as blogs such as the Huffington Post and Daily Kos;
newer left-activist sites like the Daily Kos... while sites on the left, like the Daily Kos, emphasized...
According to figures compiled by Daily Kos Elections, a left-leaning website
according to left-leaning Daily Kos Elections' new Special Elections Index
But so did Daily Kos, a far-left site
the Daily Kos on the left
On the left, a handful of prominent blogs (e.g. Daily Kos) and online-only news organizations (e.g. Huffington Post)
Daily Kos and firedoglake on the left
I'll be removing this from the lede if no one can demonstrate that this information is of the very highest notability. -- Hipal ( talk) 17:08, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes. |
I’m starting a new request with suggestions to improve this article. I believe it addresses the numerous problems with past edit requests, like the improper use of primary sourcing and promotional language. My conflict of interest is noted on this Talk Page already. Thanks.
A. Please update the two paragraphs of the lead. This is mostly clean-up of improper citations. I very slightly rewrote the lead for concision, and replaced the primary sourcing, as well as sources that aren’t allowed by Wikipedia (like the PBS Q&A and Daily Kos article) with articles from New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, which are considered reliable sources by Wikipedia. I replaced the New York Times Martin article and Bloomberg article because neither source supported the cited information. I also added “progressive” to the lead, with a supporting source from the New York Times that states Daily Kos is a “progressive” blog. Additionally, I removed “glossaries and other content” from the site description since it’s not supported by the sources. Instead I provided specifics about the site’s polling and campaign data, which is supported by reliable sources. I added articles from Rolling Stone and Politico as references for the “netroots activism” sentence. I also added short ref names for all reliable sources, which had been missing from this article.
From this:
Daily Kos ( /koʊz/ KOHZ) [1] is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party [2] [3] and liberal American politics. [4] [5] [6] The site includes glossaries and other content. It is sometimes considered an example of " netroots" activism.
Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military. [7]
To this:
Daily Kos ( /koʊz/ KOHZ) is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and progressive [8] liberal American politics. [9] [10] The site publishes blog posts, [11] polls, [12] election and campaign fundraising data, [10] [13] and is considered an example of " netroots" activism. [14] [15]
Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military. [10] [11]
B. Change Organizational overview to History and remove the subsections titles Fundraising and Viewership and Reception.
Reason: I’m proposing this change to help better organize this article to match Wikipedia section headers of similar articles such as Billboard (magazine) and Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser, both ranked GAs. “The usual practice is to order sections based on the precedent of similar articles.” MOS:SNO
C. In the new History section, add as the first paragraph:
Daily Kos was founded in May 2002 by Markos Moulitsas in Berkeley, California. [9] [11]
Reason: This information is currently missing from the History section. Changed the previous language to focus on a standard part of an organization’s history - the founder.
D. In the new History section, replace the current the second paragraph (now the first paragraph under the “Funding subsection”: Currently, the source used is from the Daily Kos, which is primary and not supported by Wikipedia sourcing standards. I rewrote the sentence to remove all primary sourcing/attribution, to reflect the information provided by supporting sources, and to better match Wikipedia sentence style. Adds Politico and The New York Times as reliable sources.
From this:
According to Daily Kos, its finances are sustained through lead generation, sponsored content, fundraising, and donations from readers and supporters who have signed up to receive joint petition emails from Daily Kos. [16]
To this:
The Daily Kos is funded by advertising, [17] [15] fundraising, and donations. citation needed
E. Replace this paragraph in the new History section (currently the second paragraph under “Funding”) that says:
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the Kos Media received between $1 million and $2 million in federally-backed small business loans from Newtek Small Business Finance as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The organization said it would help them retain 86 employees. [18] [19]
With:
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Daily Kos owner Kos Media LLC received $1.4 million in federally-backed small business loans from Newtek Small Business Finance as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. [18] [19]
Reason: Updates the first sentence to correct the amount of money from the PPP loan, adds PPP internal link, and removes the broken link for Newtek Small Business Finance. I also removed the second sentence “The organization said it would help them retain 86 employees” - that declaration from the organization was not stated in either source.
F. In the new History section, before the paragraph that starts “In an October 2018
Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations…”
Add:
In 2018, the Daily Kos launched Civiqs, a division of the blog that provides political polling data from volunteer participants. [20] [21] [22]
Reason: I’ve changed the language and added independent secondary references, as requested by a previous editor. Civiqs is a substantial division of Daily Kos that provides polling data cited in national and local media outlets including Slate, [20] National Review [23] and the San Antonio Express-News. [21] A couple, supporting, non-biased or connected sources that mention Daily Kos’s Civiqs division and the relationship include the San Antonio Express News and Topeka Capital-Journal, cited in the addition above.
G. After the paragraph that starts “In an October 2018
Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations…”, please add a new paragraph:
In 2019 Prism, an independent, non-profit publication focused on covering injustice from the perspective of underrepresented groups, became an affiliate publication of the Daily Kos. [24] [25]
Reason for adding: The addition of Prism as an affiliate of Daily Kos was reported by top publications that cover the world of journalism.
H. In the “Polling” subsection, please add as a new third paragraph:
The Daily Kos Elections tracked redistricting in the United States, [26] forecasted Electoral College results, [27] and provided polling data for elections. [28] [29]
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Now, there are guidelines. Obviously you have the usual sexist, racist type of things, but it's also a Democratic site. So if Republicans want to come in and create trouble, they're not going to last very long.
Daily Kos has always been, and will always be, a Democratic site.
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