I think you may misunderstand the main point of this community.

Think of it more like an "am I the asshole", with the * am I* replaced with are they

If you're coming into it with the idea that folks are going to respond with automatic agreement with you, you're going to end up disappointed (and likely with some degree of disdain towards you for not checking the "about" section).

If all you want is a round of agreement, or a chance to vent your spleen, that's fine, but this isn't the community where that's going to happen. You aren't required to agree with anyone's take for sure. Thing is, you gotta come at it with a little less of an argumentative thrust, or you'll end up where you are, down voted and with other users less likely to engage with your future posts.

With that, independent media is always going to be held to a higher scrutiny because they have yet, individually, to have a reputation to give their opinions weight. While established journalism outlets aren't any more likely to have "right" opinions, you can usually rely on whether or not they have been reliable with their fact checking in the past. You can also usually tell, by that reputation, if they have changed that.

You can't totally escape bias in media. It's essentially impossible to escape it in "analysis" because all analysis is opinion rather than raw fact. That's regardless of whether or not it's good analysis.

I'm not sure what pre-election polls have to do with the article in question since it's using post election responses, or that's what's in memory; because I'll be damned if I'm going back to read it again, hours later after a disappointing sleep lol.

Which comes back to what you were asking about, and you did ask for opinions on whether or not the article and site counted as a blog or not. Modding is not only applying rules, it's also applying judgement. Since I had already said I disagreed with that judgement, I won't belabor the point.

But there most definitely is a rule being applied here, you just don't agree with it being applied. There is a massive difference between the two. Again, you aren't required to agree with that opinion about the mod action; you obviously didn't when you posted or you likely wouldn't have done so.

But you're now arguing against the rule itself. That's not what you asked in your post, so I'm not sure what you expect