Explanation:
Is The Hill (thehill.com) a trusted news website or does it have a strong bias?
From what I’ve seen, The Hill’s news reporting is pretty even handed and accurate, although the site is considered to be slightly right leaning.
However, they also employ John Solomon as their executive VP of digital video and as a columnist. With a strong background in investigative journalism, his work of late has descended into promoting baseless conspiracy theories, like the widely discredited Uranium One. I’ve seen stories of his promoted by the right-wing media in the past couple of years that have fallen apart under scrutiny.
UPDATE (5–23–2020): Someone a couple of revisions that I rejected. Nothing about spelling or grammar. This answer was accurate when it was written, although The Hill has since parted with Solomon. Brendan Delaney’s second edit suggestion was not only inaccurate, but would have made the answer his own. Better that he simply answer the question himself or make his points in a comment. But then again if you do think about it Well…John Solomon was their chief editor for a long time and he’s a hard-right, loony conspiracy theorist nutbar. The site is also owned by Jerry Finkelstein, who is good friends with Trump. Furthermore, The Hill does gives face time to a lot of hard-right opinion pieces.
On the flipside, they ARE a good aggregator of political news and publish stories you won’t find elsewhere, which balances things out somewhat.
Solomon left a few months ago Fox News and The Hill seems to be making an honest effort to balance their editorial more. Jury is still out on whether they’ll be successful or not.
