The Cradle

AllSides Media Bias Rating™: Lean Left
136/150
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The Cradle
Bias Rating Lean Left
Type News Media
Region National
Website thecradle.co
Twitter @thecradlemedia
Facebook thecradlemedia
What a Lean Left Bias Rating Means

The source displays media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

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Contents
  1. About The Cradle's Bias Rating
  2. What a "Lean Left" Rating Means
  3. Details
  4. Bias Reviews
  5. Community Feedback
  6. Confidence Level

About The Cradle's Bias Rating

The Cradle is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.

What a "Lean Left" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Left bias is a moderately liberal rating on the political spectrum.

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Details

The Cradle is a "journalist-driven news magazine that is free, unowned, and covers the geopolitics of West Asia from within."

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Bias Reviews

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The Cradle Rated Lean Left in January 2024 Independent Review

An independent AllSides reviewer opted to give The Cradle an initial rating of Lean Left. 

While it demonstrated a clear opposition to Israel and the West, The Cradle did not appear to weigh in on other topics relevant to right-left U.S. politics. Site searches for "liberal," "conservative," "right-wing," and "left-wing" yielded few results.

However, The Cradle frequently cast "far-right" Israeli politicians in a negative light. While the reviewer noted that this was likely due more to the region's specific politics than any alignment with U.S. partisan polarization, The Cradle's clear anti-Israel stance made it difficult to justify a Center rating.

The reviewer noted a general trend of coverage sympathetic to Arab Muslims and suspicious of Israel and the West. This could be seen in The Cradle's extensive coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which often highlighted faults by Israel. Notable headlines included "Israeli police unable to verify 'Hamas rape' stories," "Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs," "Michael Hudson: A roadmap to escape the west's stranglehold," and "'Unprecedented' surge in West Bank settlement activities." The Cradle also published interviews with representatives of militant groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Middle Eastern politicians like Iraqi ex-PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi. 

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Community Feedback

Feedback does not determine ratings, but may trigger deeper review.

As of June 2024, people have voted on the AllSides Media Bias Rating for The Cradle. On average, those who disagree with our rating think this source has a Center bias.

Confidence Level

Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.

As of June 2024, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Lean left rating for The Cradle. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.