All you need to know about www.postcard.news

Domain Name: .news

.news domain name signifies that website is dedicated for news. It is rare to find a news website with domain extension as .news. Most of the media websites are either .com or country specific domain extension. If the domain extension is .news, it is not always necessary it to be news website and shouldn't be believed carefully. 

About Us:

According to the website, postcard.news was conceptualized in 2016 by three individuals to expose lies from main stream media. Identity of these three individuals is unknown. Exposing lies of media by hiding their identity. I don't see any threat from media personals in exposing their lies. One shouldn't be afraid of them as they will not complain to police (or government agencies) against their lies. 

Website Owner: Unknown

Domain owner details are masked on WHOIS and can not be identified by normal user. Look at WHOIS info on https://www.whois.com/whois/postcard.news or screen shot on following image. Every domain owner need to provide their contact detail which should be available to internet user. By spending few extra dollars while buying the domain, one can mask their details. 

Website Menu: 

If going by the website domain extension (.news), following is the website menu. The menu categorization is very uncommon from any other media website. They are basically categories based on cities, countries and type of stories (e.g. politics, entertainment, social etc.). 

Content Type: Biased 

About Us on the web claims that the website exist to expose lies of mainstream media. But it is not mentioned that it will expose all types of lies or certain types. 

After having a close look at topics/titles; only two types of articles are presented on this web. 

In Support of BJP: 

Articles covered here are praising BJP (also pro Hindu) ruling government, riots initiated by muslims (where hindu got hurt), articles where hindus are fined or troubled due to people from other religion. Praising work done by a govt is appreciative, but being a news website and praising one particular party raise questions about the integrity of the website. 

Against Other Parties: 

Rest of the articles are focused on against other parties. If a "news" website can praise one type of government then why not other types? If there is some agenda behind this website, it should be presented to their visitors and let website visitors decide its reliability. Running the agenda on the name of exposing lies when website covers the existing stories from different websites on internet. 

See the sample screen shots of 8 trending article on home page of postcard.news. I classified the articles based on political orientation. 

Opinion:

There is a separate tab on the website menu but after going through the opinion menu, there are no opinion articles. All the trending articles are also categorized under Opinion (see following image of Opinion article and match the titles with above article under Trending). Hence, it is not clear if the articles are actually trending article or they are someone's opinion. 

An opinion can be wrong to a third person as it is based on personnel understanding. Factual information plays minimal role in opinion. This is why journalists are fourth pillar of democracy. They analyze factual information and present it a way that all the aspect of story are covered. The journalists goes undercover to get stories but at the end comes to public when they present it. While postcard.news presents a story (basically lies from mainstream media) and hide their identity. 


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