&gt; Why should it be acceptable to downvote an otherwise interesting and correct article just because of the source?<p>&quot;Correct&quot; is often a probabilistic assessment, not something a potential up&#x2F;downvoter can determine absolutely.<p>The source is often an important input to that probabilistic assessment.<p>&gt; That smacks of voting for ideological correctness over truth or interestingness<p>Different outlets of the same ideological bent (whether relatively neutral or not) can have wildly different editorial standards which produce wildly different reliability.