[Breyean]

Yet the funny thing is, on almost all of these articles I bother to read, the comments are heavily, heavily skewed conservative. Some even make fun of Yahoo and the article’s author for the slanted story.

It’s pretty remarkable. Sometimes it seems I’m reading comments here on FR, except the posters on Yahoo are as witty as those here.

[nhwingut]

Yep. One of the great mysteries of the Internet. The right wing yahoo commenters. Never fails.

[KamperKen]

"Yet the funny thing is, on almost all of these articles I bother to read, the comments are heavily, heavily skewed conservative"

This has been my experience as well. I don't bother to read the articles, virtually all of which are utterly preposterous, but I do read the ensuing comments to get a sense of overall perceptions.

The comments are overwhelming and massively derisive and at times one will have to read through literally hundreds of them before encountering a supportive one. I have heard that Marisa Meyer, the utterly inept former CEO of Yahoo, was responsible for the hard-left turn for Yahoo News.

[trebb]

Yeah - I use Yahoo Finance purely to get a quick peek at basic Market activity and Oil...always a lot of articles moaning that nobody panicked when the Market took the recent dive, or that the trump tax-cut stimulus hasn’t made companies spend everything they go....I never read more than the headlines to see what the WSJ is probably also preaching these days....