Jill Johnson, Teacher-Librarian

21/01/2026

📺📼 TV/Video Chart, Dec 2025
Today we’re releasing our final chart for 2025 — the December edition of the TV/Video Media Bias Chart®. It contains 38 of the more than 830 TV/video shows our team has rated.

Our team has worked very hard this year to rate new media sources in order to provide useful data on our ever-changing media landscape. During 2025, we’ve added more than 100 TV/video shows, 100 podcasts and 200 websites to the Media Bias Chart®, for a total of 4,300 sources that are searchable on our free mobile app for Apple and Android or with a subscription on our Interactive Media Bias Chart® on the website.

But we didn’t just rate new websites, shows and podcasts; we also rated new content from sources that have been on the chart for years in order to maintain up-to-date and accurate information. In addition, we gathered preliminary data on thousands more sources for our business customers, resulting in commercial data on 13,680 sources.

Our analysts have spent thousands of hours rating all kinds of news and news-like sources in the past year. It’s time-consuming, complex and sometimes grueling work, but it’s important work, and we’re proud of it.

We look forward to continuing to provide important media data in 2026. Watch for the next edition of our flagship Media Bias Chart® – which contains web, TV/video and podcast sources all in one image – in January! (Want to support our work? You can make an online donation here).

As always, the December TV/video chart that we’re releasing today has a mix of network and cable TV shows, local TV news programs, YouTube and Rumble shows, and documentaries. It’s impossible to put all 800 TV/video sources we’ve rated in one image (the result would be a completely unreadable chart), so we choose a selection of sources to feature each month.

This chart contains 38 TV/video sources, and you can see a list of those 38 here. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Ten shows appear in the green box of the December chart. Remember: Sources rated as minimally biased and fact-based are found within the green box. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

ABC 7 Detroit WXYZ: 7 Action News at 6PM
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Real Yield
C-SPAN Live Stream
CNN: The Situation Room
Merit Street Media: The News on Merit TV
Mr Nobody Against Putin
NBC: Today
PBS: Frontline: The Rise of RFK Jr.
Scripps News TV Network
Sinclair: Full Measure
Ten sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time (four of these fall within the green box):

ABC 7 Detroit WXYZ: 7 Action News at 6PM
Al Jazeera: The Silencing of Anas al-Sharif
Bloomberg: Bloomberg Real Yield
CNN: Saturday Morning Table for Five
MS NOW: The Weekend: Primetime (MSNBC)
OAN: The Real Story with Riley Lewis
Scripps News TV Network
Shoe0nHead (YouTube)
Sinclair: Full Measure
This Week On Capitol Hill with Tony Perkins and Mike Johnson

21/01/2026

📆📰 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen last week in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Bystander video of the incident was shared online immediately, leading to much debate about the actions of both the ICE agents and the victim, Renee Good. Our analysts rated media coverage from across the political spectrum in our Topic of the Week.

The most fact-based reporting from our content set came from an article and video published on the ABC News website. The article provides a timeline of events during the shooting, based on videos taken during the incident and on comments made by officials immediately after. Analysts found this content to be “thorough fact reporting/fact-dense analysis.” It was assigned a slight “skews left” bias rating because the video expresses mistrust of the Trump administration’s ability to conduct a fair and thorough investigation.

An article from NPR focuses on the investigation into the incident by both federal officials and state/local prosecutors in Minnesota. It also provides details about federal agents shooting two people in Portland and updates about the identity of the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, who killed Good in Minneapolis. It gives both sides of the “competing narratives” about the shooting from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Analysts found the article to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

In a video on the Brian Tyler Cohen YouTube channel, the host interviews attorney and former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who calls the shooting “some level of homicide” because it is not “justified use of deadly force” by ICE agent Ross. Kirschner also called Noem’s statement after the shooting “purely propaganda” not backed up by video of the incident. Cohen shared a statement from President Trump and called it a “slew of outright lies.” Kirchner predicts that Trump’s administration will not prosecute the officer (and if they did and he were convicted, Trump would pardon him anyway), but he says state charges should be filed and prosecution would be successful. For reliability, analysts placed the video on the line between “analysis” and “opinion.” The video received a “strong left” bias rating because of language and criticism of Trump and his administration.

An article and short video from HuffPost were also found to have a “strong left” bias, but they were rated lower in reliability, in the category of “opinion.” The article disputes Noem’s statement that Good committed an “act of domestic terrorism” and her accusation that Good hit Ross with her car. The article contends that video evidence shows Good was trying to drive away from ICE agents and leave the scene when she was shot. Analysts noted that the main claim of the article — that the car did not strike the officer — is disputed. The most disputed aspect of content on this topic is whether and how much the car made contact with the officer, which is difficult to conclusively determine even from multiple videos. Statements within articles that assert certainty or absolutism about this aspect are rated lower for reliability.

In a video on the Megyn Kelly YouTube channel a day after the shooting, the host says that mainstream media “has lost their minds,” Minnesota officials are “gone” and can’t be “reasoned with,” and they’re “not going to be happy until an ICE officer is dead.” Kelly says Good’s death was “her own doing” because she endangered herself by not complying with ICE agents. She says “lunatic” protesters are “demonizing” Ross as a murderer and shows a video of “poor ICE agent” Ross being dragged by a car during a different ICE enforcement incident last year. Analysts noted that Kelly says multiple times that Ross was “run over,” which is unsupported, or at least exaggerated. Because of the “vitriolic language,” insults, and unsupported claims, analysts found the video to be “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias.

Finally, an article from SGT Report that was originally published by Town Hall calls Good an “idiot leftist who was either trying to kill him (Ross) or so stupid that she’d put herself into a position to panic and react stupidly in a way that he absolutely was justified in shooting her.” The article states that Democrats “don’t care” if Ross was about to be run over: “They’d rather have law enforcement officers dead than, well, anything else.” For Democrats, the article states, “Renee Good was disposable. She became more useful to these grave dancing ghouls in death than she ever could be alive.” The article goes on to say that Good and her wife “come off like women who have been insulated from consequences their entire adult life.” Analysts found the article to misrepresent the video evidence of the incident, giving it a reliability rating of “containing misleading info.” The vitriol toward Good and Democrats in general led to a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

09/10/2025

💻📰 Web/Print Chart, Oct 2025
The government is shut down, Israel and Palestine are negotiating a proposed peace plan, National Guard troops are being deployed to states, the U.S. Supreme Court is back in session — there’s a lot of news coming at us all day every day. It can be overwhelming to keep track of it all.

A friend recently told me she has to ignore the news from time to time for her own peace of mind, and I understand. Not only is information continuously being thrown at us — on our phones, our computers and our TVs — but not all of it is factual and unbiased. It’s A LOT to deal with it.

It’s important to remember, though, that there are fact-based and minimally biased sources of information out there, and the Media Bias Chart® can help you find them. The Ad Fontes Media team has rated almost 4,400 websites, podcasts and TV/video sources for their bias and reliability. Today, let’s take a look at websites.

Our analysts have now fully rated more than 79,500 individual articles from websites across the political spectrum. These websites can represent large news organizations like the Associated Press, newsletters like 1440, and Substacks like Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson.

Our team spends dozens of hours each week reading and analyzing articles not only for bias, but also for reliability — how reliable is this particular online article or source in providing factual, verifiable information. (You can read about our analysis process here.)

All of these individual article scores are entered into our database, and a weighted average of these determines where an individual source falls on the Media Bias Chart®. This important work has resulted in more than 2,740 web/print sources being fully rated, with new sources added regularly.

Today we’re releasing the October Media Bias Chart® for websites, which features 105 sources. We know it’s hard to read all of the source logos, so we’ve provided a list of those 105 here). We curate a list of sources to include each month because it’s impossible to put all of them in a single image (the logos would overlap and appear on top of one another, and the result would be an image that is impossible to read).

Here’s a list of the sources that fall within the green box on this chart. Our analyst team has found that these sources are generally reliable and minimally biased:

1440 Newsletter
Air Mail
AP | Associated Press
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
AZ Mirror
Ballotpedia
Bellingcat
Boston Herald
CBC Canada
CBS 8 San Diego KFMB
Christianity Today
CNN (website)
CTech
El Especialito
Fortune
FOX 11 LA KTTV
Fox Business (website)
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
HuffPost
Newsweek
NPR (website)
Patch
Peru21
Pew Research Center
ProPublica
Puck News
Quillette
RealClearDefense
Semafor
Straight Arrow News
The Hill
The New York Times
The Reload
USA Today
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
World News Group

Eight sources make their debut on this month’s chart:
CBS 8 San Diego KFMB
El Vocero de Puerto Rico
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
The Daily BS
The Gold Report
The New World
The Washington Spectator
World Can’t Wait

01/10/2025

01/10/2025

“Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.”—Jonathan Edward Durham

18/09/2025

Thanks to Jane Mount and the Ideal Bookshelf for permission to use this Banned Books image!

28/08/2025

I texted my father that Jerry and I hit the list again and his response was, and I quote: “What do you and Jerry think about what yawl set out to do? How do you describe in a sentence or two? Did yawl accomplish your mission? This is indication that the peoples want another JK book. What yawl waiting for? 🥹.I guess Gratz has your number. Maybe yall should write a book with him 🤣.”

09/08/2025

Book Lovers Day continues. (Why am I online???!!!)

08/08/2025

This is exciting!

And…SCENE!

23/04/2025

The April TV/Video chart is here!

This month’s insight: Cable TV News Viewership is High, But Popularity Doesn’t Equal Quality

2025 has been marked by a constant stream of major news stories, from California wildfires to immigration cases, DOGE, tariffs, protests and much more. It’s not surprising, then, that cable TV news programs broke viewership records for the first quarter of the year.

Fox News, which has been the most watched cable news network for more than 20 years, reported its highest-rated quarter in cable news history. It also boasted its highest quarter cable news share ever, with 65% of the total-day audience and 66% in primetime. In fact, of the 15 cable news shows with the most viewership, 14 of them air on Fox News.

High viewership doesn’t necessarily equal high-quality news, however. The bias and reliability of cable news TV programs – even those on the same network – can vary. It’s important to look up your favorite show on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® to make sure you can trust it to provide fact-based and balanced information.

Remember: Sources recommended by our team fall within the green box of the chart. You’ll find several cable TV news shows in the green box of the April Media Bias Chart® for TV/Video we’re releasing today. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

Al Jazeera: 101 East
CBC: The Fifth Estate
Channel 4: Unreported World
CNN International: Quest Means Business
CNN: Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju
EWTN: EWTN News In Depth
Fox News: Fox News Live
Merit Street Media: Morning on Merit Street
MSNBC: José Díaz-Balart Reports
NBC News NOW: Stay Tuned Now with Gadi Schwartz
NBC: Sunday Today With Willie Geist
NewsNation: NewsNation Now Weekend with Anna Kooiman
NewsNation: NewsNation Prime with Natasha Zouves
Scripps News: Weekend
WION (YouTube)

The 53 sources on the April chart are only a sample of the more than 720 TV/video sources that our team has rated. It’s impossible to show hundreds of logos in one image — they overlap each other, and the result is a completely unreadable chart — so we choose a sample to feature each month. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Our analyst team has rated 15 documentaries, including one that was added to the chart this month. Our analysts gave the 2023 film The Coddling of the American Mind, which examines the Gen Z mental health crisis, with a “middle/balanced” bias rating and a reliability rating of “analysis or other issues” (you’ll find it near the middle of the chart). Read about how our ratings of documentaries are different than ratings of other TV/video content here.

In addition to the documentary, five sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time:

Al Jazeera: Fault Lines
OAN: Fine Point with Chanel Rion
Scripps News: Weekend
Sky News Australia (YouTube)
The Grayzone (YouTube)

Don’t see your favorite show on this chart? That doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! You can look up ratings on all sources we’ve analyzed and create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

For expanded access, please consider a News Nerd subscription, which gives you the ability to search all sources we’ve rated and provides many additional benefits.

When you add in our web/print and podcast/audio ratings, our analysts have fully rated more than 4,120 sources, with commercial data on about 11,500 sources. Keep up on all of our work by joining our email list!

21/04/2025

Literacy, critical thinking, equitable access: school librarians are ESSENTIAL! The ALA's "School Librarians: Essential to Students' Success" resource says it all! 🔑