As documented in various postings on this blog, approximately five years ago I started noticing that many sports and science-related web sites (formerly magazines) moved from factual reporting to political advocacy. In fact, I started removing many of the links on the left-side of my blog page as well as from my Feedly newsfeed. This included Deadspin, ESPN, Scientific American, and Popular Mechanics.
I discovered that most of the articles on these sites were not written by sports advocates or engineers, but were the work of individuals with backgrounds in journalism. It’s relatively safe to assume that the majority of people that go into journalism have a leftist slant. Thus, this has become the positioning of many formerly fact-based journals.