What's wrong with this picture?

Today while doing research I ran across "NewsTrust," a website intended to help separate wheat from chaff in the world of journalism.  NewsTrust develops ratings on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0 to help users determine the level of trust for various news sources.

If you haven't examined the picture yet, it's time.

Notice the trend that has left-leaning agenda journalism exhibiting higher level of trust than (mainstream and left-leaning) news organizations like NPR and the New York Times?  FactCheck is probably the only independent in the group that deserves its high rating.

NewsTrust uses its membership as a giant review panel to rate news stories.  The members evidently pick the stories as they please.

Here's a sample review of a PolitiFact story I panned last year:

PolitiFact shows in this story how the Death Panel lie started and how it spread like wildfire via all forms of media; how it became part of the congressional record on 40 occassions.

Reviewers have the option of providing material that contradicts the finding of a story.  The reviewer in this case found nothing so objectionable about the story and the information she fed the system resulted in a 4.1 rating for the story.

Survey says:  NewsTrust further institutionalizes institutional media bias.  The journalists involved in the ratings will carry, as usual, their leftward tilt and that tilt is probably magnified by a membership pool with an even more pronounced port list.

It's a good idea, but badly flawed in its execution.