Bill O'Reilly Bias and Reliability Overview
Bill O'Reilly is a journalist, author and former TV host. O’Reilly formerly worked for CBS News, ABC News and Fox News. He now shares conservative commentary via a website and podcast, and has written dozens of books. The O’Reilly website records approximately 883,000 visits per month. Ad Fontes Media rates Bill O'Reilly as hyper-partisan right in terms of bias and as somewhat unreliable in terms of reliability.
Overall Score
A team of analysts at Ad Fontes Media regularly reviews articles and news programs to rate them in terms of bias and reliability. A weighted average of these ratings results in the overall score for the media source.
The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to neutral to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.
The following are Bill O'Reilly’s overall bias and reliability scores according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.
Reliability: 21.05
Bias: 27.23
Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 24 are generally acceptable; scores above 32 are generally good.
Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to + 42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being the most neutral and/or balanced.
Individual Article Scores
The following articles were reviewed by Ad Fontes Media analysts on the basis of reliability and bias. Each article was reviewed by at least three analysts: one conservative, one liberal and one moderate.
The team considers a variety of factors when rating a news article. To determine its reliability score, we consider the article’s veracity, expression, and its headline and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a sliding scale, with the average of those creating the article’s overall reliability score.
To determine an article’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position and how it compares to other stories from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a sliding scale, with the average of those creating the article’s overall bias score.
Article URL
Bias
Reliability
Nobody is Safe from Covid 5.33 30.97 BLM Responds to Looting in Chicago-Puts Blame on Police; ACLU Pushes for Open Borders & Brett Tolman on the Durham Investigation 22.33 33.56 Bill's Weekly Column 32 17.5 By George, Let's Cancel 25 22.24 Bill's Weekly Column 30.67 16.85 Bill's Weekly Column 29.67 28.51 Bill's Weekly Column 27.67 21.16 BLM Responds to Looting in Chicago-Puts Blame on Police; ACLU Pushes for Open Borders & Brett Tolman on the Durham Investigation 27.33 17.16 The People and Organizations Harming America: Bill O'Reilly's Special Report 28.2 18.74 Bill O'Reilly's No Spin Thoughts on Kamala Harris 31 18.85 Bill's Weekly Column 26.33 22.9 Bill's Weekly Column 15.33 28.44 Joe Biden Against the Police 21.33 30.63 Polling My Liberal Friends 22 26.29
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