tennesseestar.comA conservative news and commentary site focused on U.S. andTennessee politics that does not disclose staff members’ connectionsto political figures and organizations that the site covers.

Ownership andFinancing

The Tennessee Star is owned and operated by privatelyheld Star News Digital Media, Inc., according to the site.Star News Digital Media was founded by conservativecommentators Michael Patrick Leahy and Steve Gill andTea Party activist Christina Botteri, according to aSeptember 2018 press release posted on the site. Leahyand Botteri are listed as Star News Digital Media’smajority shareholders on the company’s website. Gillleft the company in August 2019. The company isregistered in Delaware and based in Nashville,Tennessee.

Star News Digital Media also owns TheOhioStar.com,TheMinnesotaSun.com, TheMichiganStar.com, andBattlegroundStateNews.com — sites that are nearlyidentical in design to The Tennessee Star.

TennesseeStar.com, TheOhioStar.com, andTheMichiganStar.com are registered to Leahy, whoserves as Star News Digital Media’s CEO and editor-in-chief. Leahy is also associated with 12 other sites whosenames typically follow a format similar toTennesseeStar.com, but most were inactive as ofSeptember 2019.

Leahy, who started his career as a managementconsultant and identifies himself as an “early tea partyactivist” on his Twitter profile, is an author and acontributing writer for the conservative news siteBreitbart. He co-founded the Nationwide Tea PartyCoalition, a Tea Party activist group that held leadershipsummits to train organizers, in 2009. Four years later, in2013, Leahy co-founded The Real ConservativesNational Committee PAC and served as its treasureruntil it filed for termination two years later.

Botteri, who calls herself a “#TeaParty Strategist” on herTwitter profile, was also a co-founder of the NationwideTea Party Coalition. In 2010, she co-founded theNational Tea Party Federation, which described itself in apress release that year as “a broad coalition of national

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and regional Tea Party groups.” She also served as itsspokeswoman. The press release stated that thefederation was “established to create a unified messageand media response amongst key leadership and theiraffiliates” and to promote the Tea Party’s agenda.

Star News Digital Media earns revenue throughadvertising, events, and an online store that sellsTrump-related products.

Content The Tennessee Star — which describes itself on itsFacebook page as “your place for news and informationthat matters to Tennesseans!” — publishes news andcommentary from a conservative perspective, which itdoes not clearly disclose. Content appears in six mainsections — News, Commentary, Tennessee Star Report,Constitution Series, and Lifestyle. Many articles focus onTennessee, although the site also covers national news,frequently writing about the mainstream media in acritical manner.

Typical articles have run under headlines including“DNC Chair Tom Perez Complains That VotersInfluenced by Church,” “Questions Surround WhoApproved ‘White Privilege’ Training for WilliamsonCounty Teachers,” “Nashville Pro-Illegal ImmigrationActivist Lawyers Lose Deportation Case,” “TennesseePastors Network Issues Pro-Life Pledge for Candidatesto Show Commitment to Defund Planned Parenthood,”and “Chinese Officials Are Reportedly Burning BiblesAnd Crosses, Forcing Christians To Renounce TheirFaith.”

TenneseeStar.com posts written and audio excerpts ofLeahy’s Nashville radio show, “The Tennessee StarReport.” The site also publishes content produced byThe Associated Press and other third-party newsproviders.

Credibility The Tennessee Star generally publishes fact-basedreporting that often cites firsthand interviews, primarydocuments, and reputable media outlets. Headlinesaccurately reflect content.

However, several current and former Tennessee Starstaff members have connections to political figures ororganizations that the site does not disclose, includingwhen the site writes about those political players.

For example, fact-checking website Snopes reported —and NewsGuard confirmed — that The Tennessee Starhas published multiple articles about a client of GillMedia, a consulting firm run by Star News DigitalMedia’s then political editor and board member. Thearticles did not disclose the connection between Gilland the client, Joe Carr, who lost a Republican specialprimary election for a Tennessee State Senate seat inJanuary 2018.

Carr paid Gill Media more than $39,000 between Dec. 4,2017, and Jan. 16, 2018, according to Tennessee StateGovernment campaign finance records, Snopesreported and NewsGuard confirmed.

Nearly all of the TennesseeStar.com stories coveringCarr’s campaign were positive, including three thatcontained transcripts of Carr’s campaign radio ads (twoof those articles also embedded the ads themselves).Carr also wrote an op-ed for the site. Some of thearticles relating to Carr included a disclaimer that theJoe Carr for State Senate Campaign was a TennesseeStar advertiser, but there was no mention in any of thestories that the Carr campaign paid for Gill Media’sservices.

Asked by Snopes about Carr’s payments to Gill Media,Leahy, a Star News Digital Media co-founder, said that“Gill Media placed radio spots during Joe Carr’s specialelection candidacy for the State Senate. During thatsame time period both Carr and his opponent placed adbuys with the Tennessee Star.” Leahy also told Snopesthat although “Gill Media, Inc. is a separate entity fromTennessee Star … as a media buyer [Gill Media] hasoccasionally purchased advertising on the TennesseeStar.”

NewsGuard found three articles on TennesseeStar.comthat cite the nonprofit Power of Liberty as a source andsix articles that mention the conservative voter turnoutproject Lift the Vote. Gill is the president of Power ofLiberty and also serves as a co-chairperson of Lift theVote. The other co-chairperson of Lift the Vote isTennesseeStar.com’s former faith editor, DanaHunsinger Gill, who is Gill’s wife. However, articles onthe site that reference these organizations rarelymention these connections.

NewsGuard sent Gill two emails and left two voicemailsinquiring about the lack of disclosure in articles relatingto his organizations and client, but did not receive aresponse. Two Facebook messages sent to DanaHunsinger Gill also went unanswered.

Snopes also reported, and NewsGuard confirmed, thatChris Butler, whose biography on The Tennessee Staridentifies him as an investigative journalist for the site,worked as a media spokesperson for the TennValuesPAC immediately before joining The Tennessee Star inAugust 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile. Butlerstates on his profile that TennValues PAC was “a politicalPAC to help elect Bill Lee governor in 2018.” Sincejoining The Tennessee Star, Butler has reported on Lee’ssuccessful campaign for governor, and hisadministration, without disclosing Butler’s previouswork for a PAC that worked to elect Lee.

Leahy told Snopes, “If you had done your homework,you would have seen that Mr. Butler did not write for usbetween May 31, 2018 and August 8, 2018 during theperiod of time he was working for that PAC.”

Butler did not respond to two emails inquiring aboutthe lack of disclosure of Butler’s connection to Lee.

NewsGuard also confirmed Snopes’ reporting that LauraBaigert, who is identified on TennesseeStar.com as asenior reporter, helps run the Roving Patriots PAC.According to the PAC’s website, the group is “focusedon achieving, supporting and maintaining a trueconservative majority within the Tennessee House ofRepresentatives.” Baigert regularly reports onTennesseeStar.com about Tennessee’s House ofRepresentatives, but the site does not disclose herinvolvement with the Roving Patriots PAC.

Two emails NewsGuard sent to Baigert through ageneral email address listed on the Roving Patriots PACwebsite went unanswered. NewsGuard called a phonenumber listed on the PAC’s site twice, but no oneanswered and its voicemail was not set up. A Facebookmessage sent to Baigert also did not receive a response.

Because TennesseeStar.com has repeatedly neglected todisclose connections between its leaders and staffmembers and the campaigns and groups that the sitecovers, NewsGuard has determined that the site doesnot gather and present information responsibly.

In response to a request for comment on theseapparent conflicts of interest, Leahy told NewsGuard inan email: “In this string of allegations, it appears asthough you are relying solely on an article written bySnopes.com in March 2019. As an aside, we believe that— after several weeks (months) of investigation theywere unable to point to factual errors or distortion inour stories — and they decided to attempt to use theirconsiderable digital footprint to set the conditions forplatforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and etc. torestrict the dissemination and circulation of our contentby users based on unsupported assertions of ‘conflictsof interest.’”

He continued, “Our policy of disclosure of potentialconflicts of interests is clear. Any conflict of interest of amaterial nature is disclosed. None of the four instancescited by Snopes and recited by you are material.”

The Tennessee Star mentioned its conservativeviewpoint in a September 2018 press release publishedon the site. However, the site does not reveal itsorientation in a user-friendly manner in a standinglocation where readers interested in learning about thesite’s orientation would be likely to look. Moreover, thesite consistently cherry picks stories that advance aconservative agenda.

For example, the site’s coverage of U.S. immigrationtypically portrays immigration as a threat to the country,without including other points of view.  A September2019 article, titled “Bill Hagerty Warns About Democrats‘Radical’ Immigration Agenda for Tennessee,” covered atweet by Hagerty, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate inTennessee, that stated: “Democrats aren’t just pushingfor their radical immigration policies on the nationalstages; it’s happening right here at home in TN.Nashville, like every city and town in America, shouldstand up for the rule of law.”

Other typical TennesseeStar.com stories on immigrationhave included: “Report: Illegal Immigration CostsTaxpayers $116 Billion Annually — Californians, Texans,Floridians Pay the Most;” “Dan Crenshaw Says Ocasio-Cortez Is ‘Getting Bolder With Her Lies’ About theImmigration Crisis,” and “AOC Apologies [sic] to IllegalAliens ‘On Behalf of the US.’”

The site’s coverage of gun policy also advances aconservative perspective. A September 2019 article,titled, “Nashville Mayor Briley Once Again Calls forTennessee Gun Control Laws in Wake of a MassShooting in Another State,” stated: “In a now-familiarrefrain from a liberal politician, Nashville Mayor DavidBriley is politicizing a mass shooting and calling forshredding the Second Amendment.”

Other stories covering gun control have included:“Beto’s Newest Gun Control Idea Involves ControllingWhat Americans Can Buy With a Credit Card,” “PopularMinnesota Gun Control Group Makes ‘Dubious ClaimThat It Is ‘Nonpartisan,’” and “Tim Walz Buried GunControl Measures in His Budget Proposal.”

Because The Tennessee Star does not clearly disclose itsconservative perspective, yet provides coverage thatconsistently promotes that point of view, NewsGuardhas determined that the site does not handle thedifference between news and opinion responsibly.

Asked about how the site handles opinion, Leahy said:“You write, ‘we look for sites to disclose theirperspectives in a location that would be easilyaccessible for the average reader.’ However, with acombined three decades of experience in the newsbusiness, we have never heard of an outlet ‘disclosingtheir perspectives’ in a way you describe.”

TennesseeStar.com states on its Contact Us page thatthe site “welcomes feedback from readers if theybelieve we have published an error” and that “if TheTennessee Star is found to have published an error, acorrection will be published online.” However,NewsGuard found only one correction published on thesite in the two years since it was founded, from October2018. This does not meet NewsGuard’s standard forregularly publishing corrections.

“We take great pains to insure the accuracy of ourstories prior to publication,” Leahy said. “When an errorin a story is brought to our attention, we will correct itimmediately. If that error rises to a material level, wedisclose our correction. With regards to your request forrecent examples of corrections ..., there may not be anyrecent examples of corrections that rise to the materiallevel.”

Transparency Most articles on The Tennessee Star name the author.Articles written by Tennessee Star staff members link toan archive of the writer’s work, and stories often includeshort author biographies, including links to social mediaprofiles and individual email addresses.

The site’s editorial leadership and ownership by StarNews Digital Media is disclosed on the About Us andContact Us pages. Individual contact information andbiographies are provided for Leahy and Star NewsDigital Media Executive Editor Christina Botteri.Information about Leahy’s and Botteri’s work with theTea Party movement is included in their biographies.The Contact Us page also includes a general feedbackform, phone number, and email address, as well as aphysical address.

Advertisements are distinguished from editorialcontent.

History The Tennessee Star launched in February 2017, Leahytold NewsGuard. In an April 2018 article, Politicodubbed Star News Digital Media publications “babyBreitbarts” — part of a national trend of “opaque,locally focused, ideological outlets, dressed up astraditional newspapers.” Gill told Politico he agreedthat it would be fair to call the site the “Breitbart ofTennessee.”

Leahy told NewsGuard that Gill resigned from StarNewsDigital Media in late August 2019 and that Gill“has had no ownership interest in or relationship to thecompany since that resignation.” Around the time thathe resigned, Gill spent nine days in jail on the orders ofa Tennessee judge for allegedly failing to pay $170,000in child support to his ex-wife, according to multiplepress reports.

NewsGuard sent Gill two emails and left two voicemails,inquiring about his resignation from The Tennessee Star,but did not receive a response.

Editor’s Note: This Nutrition Label was updated on Oct. 4,2019, to reflect that the site added biographicalinformation about its owners, who also serve as the site’seditorial leadership. Because TennesseeStar.com nowdiscloses information about the owners’ outside politicalactivities, the site now meets the standards for providinginformation about its ownership and editorial leaders.

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This label was also updated to reflect thatTennesseeStar.com has added a corrections policy,although it does not meet NewsGuard’s standard forregularly issuing corrections.

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http://tennesseestar.com/2018/10/04/lee-and-dean-offer-differing-views-in-memphis-gubernatorial-debate/Lack of correctionshttp://tennesseestar.com/tag/correction/https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Atennesseestar.com+correction&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB818GB818&oq=site%3Atennesseestar.com+correction&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6031j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB818GB818&ei=O6NAXMz2Da6f1fAPw_2T2AE&q=site%3Atennesseestar.com+%22article+has+been%22&oq=site%3Atennesseestar.com+%22article+has+been%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...34418.37088..37295...0.0..0.67.1055.18......0....1..gws-wiz.G2QPlpEU2Lohttps://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB818GB818&ei=YKNAXN28O8LhxgP11IbwCA&q=site%3Atennesseestar.com+%22previous+version%22&oq=site%3Atennesseestar.com+%22previous+version%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...61950.64052..64171...0.0..0.70.943.16......0....1..gws-wiz.Um6AB3cfKbQhttp://tennesseestar.com/2018/09/12/amazon-the-worlds-most-dangerous-crony-capitalist/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/05/26/identity-politics-is-now-undermining-science/https://apps.tn.gov/tncamp-app/public/ceresults.htmhttp://tennesseestar.com/2017/11/06/breaking-joe-carr-announces-run-for-tennessee-state-senate-seat-jim-tracy-will-be-leaving/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/11/10/exclusive-interview-joe-carr-standing-firm-on-conservative-record-in-race-for-tennessee-state-senate-in-14th-district-special-election/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/05/joe-carr-reacts-to-the-kate-steinle-verdict/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/06/state-senate-candidate-joe-carr-launches-radio-ad-campaign/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/14/joe-carr-calls-for-an-investigation-into-the-grant-process-of-the-tennessee-department-of-economic-and-community-development/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/16/state-senate-candidate-joe-carr-airs-second-special-election-ad/

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Transparency http://tennesseestar.com/2018/09/13/commentary-clowns-to-the-left-of-us-jokers-to-the-right-and-

media-all-around/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/30/breitbart-tennessee-fake-news-560670http://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/31/pope-francis-resign-and-let-pope-benedict-return-from-retirement/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/21/muslim-celebration-of-unity-and-power-at-u-s-bank-stadium-in-minnesota-with-chants-of-allahu-akbar/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/07/13/commentary-democrats-anti-catholic-bigotry-on-kavanaugh-will-cost-them-in-november/Bylineshttp://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/13/democrat-stacey-abrams-files-lawsuit-in-georgia-governor-race-as-runoff-looks-out-of-reach/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/13/majority-of-likely-us-voters-are-against-impeaching-kavanaugh/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/13/scott-county-official-denies-stealing-from-taxpayers-despite-report/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/12/living-in-the-forest-and-risking-their-lives-the-extreme-measures-enviros-will-take-to-stop-a-crude-oil-pipeline/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/12/judicial-commissioner-who-went-soft-on-justin-jones-made-another-mistake-in-2014/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/13/jerry-brown-blames-those-who-deny-global-warming-for-deadly-wildfires/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/11/11/trump-lands-in-paris-attacks-macrons-call-for-european-military-as-very-insulting/Opacityhttps://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/14/diane-black-camp-slams-joe-carr-over-ads-dark-money-group/87060492/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/06/lift-the-vote-urges-alabama-christians-to-vote-in-special-u-s-senate-election-next-week/https://www.nashvillepost.com/politics/elections/article/20829480/black-supporter-files-federal-complaint-against-501c4https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812325684/201722899349301047/IRS990Mention Gill’s “nonpartisan” nonprofits, do not discloselink

http://tennesseestar.com/2018/05/24/andy-ogles-bucky-rowland-lead-in-races-for-maury-county-mayor-and-sheriff/http://tennesseestar.com/2017/11/21/lift-the-vote-urges-american-christians-to-join-redwednesday-in-support-of-persecuted-christians-around-the-world/http://tennesseestar.com/2018/06/29/maury-county-poll-andy-ogles-leads-by-10-in-race-for-mayor-bill-lee-leads-gop-gubernatorial-primary-by-12/Does disclosehttp://tennesseestar.com/2017/03/04/steve-gill-encourages-conservatives-to-take-action/Concerns Gill, doesn’t disclose he owns outlethttps://tennesseestar.com/2018/03/22/steve-gill-is-back-on-the-radio/Power of Liberty/Lift the Votehttps://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/08/01/group-behind-anti-diane-black-ads-hit-federal-complaint/87912360/https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/14/diane-black-camp-slams-joe-carr-over-ads-dark-money-group/87060492/https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/how-it-happened-in-the-8th-district/Content?oid=4830175http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/06/as-2020-nears-pressure-grows-to-replace-voting-machines/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/05/full-court-press-house-democrats-expand-russia-probe-seeking-documents-to-prove-obstruction/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/05/bill-clinton-has-2020-advice-but-few-candidates-are-seeking-it/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/04/mt-juliet-passes-ordinance-restricting-operation-of-abortion-clinics-within-most-of-the-city/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/04/top-democrats-vow-to-intensify-trump-probes-into-russia-collusion/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/04/congress-wades-into-britains-brexit-drama/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/03/us-imposes-sanctions-on-venezuelan-officials-for-blocking-aid/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/03/hawaii-decides-again-not-to-legalize-marijuana/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/03/wikileaks-source-manning-fights-subpoena/http://tennesseestar.com/2019/03/02/scientists-see-evidence-of-underground-lake-system-on-mars/

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History https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/30/breitbart-tennessee-fake-news-560670http://tennesseestar.com/2018/09/04/tennessee-star-parent-company-launches-ohio-star-and-minnesota-sun/https://domainbigdata.com/gmail.com/mj/LJpJ3QKb6bv_lujzFxctT1OEOYSEFFVtoPXvFQ3BkL8https://domainbigdata.com/nj/41rLN0je95J6CjcrLgldXh5tNhyQzVLDRnsEI4QSka8http://themichiganstar.com/http://thencstar.com/http://thewisconsinstar.com/https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/conservative-radio-host-steve-gill-accused-of-abusing-threatening-wife/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/08/29/us/ap-us-steve-gill-child-support.htmlhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2019/08/28/court-files-reveal-allegations-abuse-against-radio-host-steve-gill/2144102001/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-steve-gill-jail-child-support-restraining-order-of-protection-tenn-20190829-xr3ukg7kbrh4dhytfaviyhgqsm-

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