19th News Bias and Reliability

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for 19th News according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: -11.12

Reliability: 33.29

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.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

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 the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting 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 source’s overall bias score.

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 source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart^®️, 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, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

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
Here’s what’s really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota	-9.33	43.33
Will Democrats fight for trans rights? Their first big test just played out in the Senate.	-4.67	41.67
Trump suggests Liz Cheney should be shot	-20	6.33
Liz Cheney says she’ll vote for Kamala Harris	-3.33	43.33
The 19th Explains: What you need to know about Project 2025	-17	27.33
JD Vance, who has a specific vision for America’s families, focuses on his own in RNC speech	-10.33	42.67
New Title IX rules offer ‘comprehensive coverage’ for LGBTQ+ students and sexual violence survivors	-10	48.33
In ‘Sea Change,’ a Korean-American woman reckons with immigrant trauma and navigating life in her early 30s	0.0	33.0
Inflation, caregiving, housing among top economic challenges women face	-15.33	44.67
Nashville shooting suspect’s gender sets attack apart from most mass shootings	-14	34.67
Montana is one of 11 states aiming to define sex to exclude transgender people	-14	40.33
Kamala Harris focuses on women’s economic inclusion and leadership on last day in Ghana	-7.67	39.67
Clinics in states where you can get an abortion prepare for 'wave of clients'	-13.33	42.33
Justice Samuel Alito argued abortion isn’t an economic issue. Is that true?	-10.67	37.67
What Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s questions this week revealed about the GOP, gender and messaging	-16	33.67
COVID Delta variant puts men, people of color at risk, Biden official warns	-1	48.0
Two states have killed the ‘tampon tax,' but advocates want more	-9.33	46.67
Women in the Biden White House earn 99 cents for every $1 earned by men	-11	46.67
Kagan warns Supreme Court has weakened voting protections at ‘perilous moment’	-12	45.67
White House to review interagency protections for transgender Americans	-11	47.67
Fate of infrastructure deal hinges on approving Biden’s plan for working women	-4.33	46.0
Explainer: Title IX change for transgender students after Bostock	-7	46.33
For the People Act blocked by Senate Republicans	-7	45.67
Britney Spears lost her reproductive freedom. She is not alone.	-3.33	48.33
19th Explains: Why domestic violence qualifies for asylum again	-2.67	46.67