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A fact from Vox (website) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Economist compared Ezra Klein's aspirations for Vox, his new Vox Media news website, with John Keats's negative capability?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vox (website).

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Bias in reception portion

Having read this article for the first time it appears obvious to me that most of the "reception" portion is negative critique by conservative commentators. It would be good to get a more balanced picture of Vox's reception in my opinion.

Vox's sometimes farcical ideological bias is obvious to me even as a liberal, as are the condescending narratives put forth in many of their 'explanations'. FAIR has a piece this year that shows how Vox often uses 'most experts agree' in many of their explainer videos and articles to advance positions without actual proof, for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:240:8000:C700:CAE0:EBFF:FE16:F2D7 (talk) 05:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

{{Did you know nominations/Vox (website)}} czar ⨹ 03:35, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Biased critical session

The citation for the statement that Vox is "politically liberal" all come from self-proclaimed conservative sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjacton (talk • contribs) 15:21, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All or virtually all of the voices in the "Political Stance" section come from the right. Does no one on the left--or the center--have anything to say about Vox's political stance? Nareek (talk) 01:23, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I consider myself center-left and I don't think classifying VOX as having a liberal perspective would be controversial. There are examples of liberal or non-conservative sources classifying VOX as "progressive/liberal": http://prospect.org/article/unbearable-whiteness-liberal-media http://theweek.com/articles/567586/gawker-meltdown-voxification-news-media http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/8/1536264/-My-guide-to-liberal-websites https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/08/the-sad-decline-of-vox-how-a-once-promising-media.html http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/04/does-the-left-have-a-smug-problem/479961/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14D:8504:109D:5C9E:E0B:1D47:44C3 (talk) 22:11, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Political stance section restored

I have restored, but significantly shortened the Political stance section as it was too long and was WP:Undue weight. I removed some criticism from less-known blogs.

However, the section itself should remain. If you look at the other Wiki pages for sites like HuffPost, Daily Caller, etc., there is a "Political stance" section.

There have been complaints that most of the "Political stance" criticism have come from conservative or conservative leaning outlets. However, that does not mean it should be removed. For example, look at the article for The Washington Times. Most the political stance stuff comes from left-leaning outlets/commentators like Mother Jones or Thomas Frank, but that does not mean the commentary is not legitimate. I have also removed most of the commentary from conservative blogs or pundits, and kept only the ones from major news outlets.

I have left commentary and criticism regarding Vox's political stance from The Week, The Washington Times' Christopher J. Harper, and The Federalist's David Harsanyi. The Week is a well respected news magazine with many points of view, and is generally not considered conservative. Christopher J. Harper and Harsanyi are both well respected journalists.

If you can find any commentary regarding Vox's political stance from left-leaning outlets, please add it.

Marquis de Faux (talk) 05:56, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here's one for you: find any article, one, a single article, that is not left leaning, from Vox. They are almost all articles like this http://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules?yptr=yahoo in support of liberal views or candidates, or they are trashing conservative viewpoints/candidates. It is interesting that you want commentary regarding Vox's political stance, but you refuse to accept the fact that the answer lies within the articles themselves. They all support ultra liberal viewpoints, and shun anything conservative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.233.82 (talk) 22:30, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]