NBC News Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates NBC News (website) in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. NBC News (website) is the news division of the National Broadcasting Company, part of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast Corporation. Founded in 1940, it is headquartered in New York City. Its website was launched in 1996.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for NBC News (website) according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 43.89

Bias: -5.66

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle 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.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

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 minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
How Biden's border trip came together -0.67 45.33
Police investigating how an Oklahoma 16-year-old died after a school fight 0 42.33
Ex-Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 9 boys — but true number of victims is unknown 0 45
Chiefs fan filmed tackling possible mass shooting suspect says 'I had the perfect angle' -2 44.67
Democrats are trying to turn the GOP’s 2024 Senate contenders into Dr. Oz 0 43.33
Putin says Biden is better for Russia than a Trump presidency -1 44.33
Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City Chiefs teammates ‘heartbroken’ after parade tragedy -2 44.67
Pakistan politician gives up seat, saying vote was rigged in his favor 0 45
Supreme Court signals unlikely to let Colorado kick Trump off ballot 0 47.67
AI and covert canvassing: How Imran Khan is campaigning from jail in Pakistan 0 44.67
Facebook and Instagram will label more AI-made images ahead of November election 0 42.67
'Don't stop!' Nikki Haley's supporters urge her to carry on as she's down big in S.C. 0 43.33
Two arrested in Virginia on charges of stealing Pride flags from a queer couple’s home -4.67 43
Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Hiss’ hits No. 1 following feud with Nicki Minaj 0 41.33
Bob Menendez's fundraising drops and legal fees skyrocket amid indictments 0 44.33
Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to manslaughter in deadly ‘Rust’ shooting 0 44
Nikki Haley's super PAC spent big to fuel her rise. It started 2024 with little left. -2.67 40.67
More than $27M in Trump campaign fundraising went to legal costs in the last six months of 2023 -2.67 42.33
Woman, 2 children die crossing Rio Grande as Border Patrol says Texas troops prevented them from intervening -19.33 17
David Gail, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ and ‘Port Charles’ actor, dies at 58 0 41.33
U.S. says it seized Iran missile parts bound for the Houthis after SEALs went overboard 0 45
Vivek Ramaswamy drops out of the 2024 presidential race, endorses Trump 0 44.67
How the Stanley cup craze has become a viral sensation 0 44.33
Trump dominates in Iowa as GOP caucus nears 0 45.33
Prosecutors seek six-month sentence for Jan. 6 defendant targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists -4.33 40.67

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