New England News Outlets Blasting “Pink Slime Journalism”

New England’s legacy newspaper editors have their panties in a wad over “pink slime journalism.”

But contrary to what you might think, they're not talking about their own brand of slime. (Put an LMAO right here.)

What they're freaking out about are “fake news” websites allegedly sponsored by a - drum roll - conservative journalist.

The “pink slime” alert went out recently in an email that the Maine Press Association sent to all its members in advance of its fall conference this October in South Portland, Maine.

“New England editors are worried ‘pink slime’ journalism poses real danger,” the association announced.

“Pink slime.”

Kinda sounds like the stuff you see daily in the liberal legacy papers from Maine to California.

But the association’s members want to make sure you're not confusing just regular slime, on the one hand, and pink slime on the other.

Their slime is apparently a different strain of slime, and not to be confused with the pink (conservative) variety.

WGBH.org, which just published a piece on pink slime, described it as something “named after a meat byproduct made from beef trimmings.”

Almost sounds like the Portland Press Herald in Maine, just to give one example.

“These websites attempt to look like traditional local news organizations but instead are created and funded by partisan groups, largely with the help of automated services, according to watchdog groups that follow them,” according to WGHB.

Watchdog groups?

Watchdog groups, for those paying attention, are comprised of the editors of the legacy papers who are quickly losing readership and in total freakout mode.

They are upset because conservative news sites are gaining a big following among Americans tired of fake news.

WGBH breathlessly reports:

“Last year, a New York-based company called NewsGuard released a report finding that there were 1,265 ‘pink slime’ outlets across the nation, more than the number of dwindling daily newspapers. And with the recent defunding of public radio and television by Congress, some are worried these sites will play a larger role in filling local news holes, especially in more remote areas across the country.

“‘It is as pernicious as any of the other contributing causes to this local news crisis because it undermines the legitimate hand-woven truths of local news organizations struggling to survive,’ said Charlie Sennott, publisher of the Martha’s Vineyard Times and cofounder of Report for America, which assigns reporters to local newsrooms around the country.”

WGBH proudly reported that it suspects the guy behind “pink slime” runs an outlet called Metric Media.

“Several journalism researchers tie the company to Brian Timpone, a conservative former TV reporter,” says WGBH. “The editorial content published on Metric Media sites over the years includes the false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”

And?

“Metric Media is constructed very, very deliberately so that it is hard to know where the money is coming from and going to,’’ Eric Bell, founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, told WGBH News last week. “You really do have to spend a lot of time digging into (federal) filings to see who’s been giving money where.”

Heck, the alleged lack of a funding trail almost sounds like the National Trust for Local Journalism, the company that owns the Press Herald and has failed to date to itemize where it's getting its money from.

And now a closing word from WGBH warning you to avoid conservative news guys such as Timpone:

“In a time where media outlets across the country are fighting financial, political and societal headwinds, there’s a risk these outlets will cause lasting damage.”

Due to a misplaced modifier, sounds like the legacy artists are referring to their own biased coverage.

Nah, can't be.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-08-05/local-editors-worry-pink-slime-journalism-poses-real-danger