Men's News Daily

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Men's News Daily (MND) was started in 2001 as a news and commentary site. It has had a consistent special focus in its original articles on criticism of feminism and federal reform of family law as well as regular conservative political commentary. It has provided a range of up-to-date information on a variety of subjects primarily through links and to a lesser extent through original articles. Changes in the site format in 2005-2006 traded some of this diversity for blog and news log links.

As the name of the site suggests it provides more commentary from a male perspective, particularly in support of fathers' rights. Feminist commentary, when it does appear, tends to be equally critical of the anti-male sentiment in the feminist movement, in government policy, in social / political debate, and in news reporting. On October 10, 2007 (date of this edit) it was listed as one of the most popular 75 "right of center" websites[1]. With 39,506 links, it ranks 16,013 in worldwide link popularity.[2]

The relation between views expressed in original articles to political parties varies, and is more often expressed through criticism than support. Democrats seem to be criticized more often than other parties especially during a presidential election season. During the run-up to the 2004 election, the site regularly carried articles from Talon News, a site later revealed as having a dedicated agenda in support of the Republican Party. During this same period, the site contained a link directly to the RNC as well as to other conservative politically oriented and fathers' rights related websites. MND writers have criticized both major parties, especially on family policy, while more often, but not always supporting Republican Party views on other issues.

Although a range of views does find its way into MND commentary, its reputation as a conservative site seems well deserved. The diversity of views in a roundtable discussion on Fathers’ Rights and the Marriage Movement went only so far as to include classic liberal thinkers as opponents.[3] An August 2004 article criticized religious right think tank Family Research Council for not being politically conservative enough in their views on family politics.[4] The site influenced public discussion enough to attract the attention of leftist PR organization SourceWatch.org, whose operative, aptly code-named "Artificial Intelligence" tried unsuccessfully to link it to a conspiracy with Talon.[5]