Marine Corps Times Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Marine Corps Times according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: 0.19

Reliability: 44.92

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
Lockheed delivered record 191 F-35s as it cleared out TR-3 backlog0.6743.33
Hacking For Defense planners look to expand beyond military problems0.042.67
Fate of Marine battalion commander connected to deadly AAV sinking to be determined in December0.042.67
A birthday toast to belligerent Marine commandant Anthony Gale, the only top officer ever fired0.040.0
Former Virginia governor, senator Chuck Robb pens book about being a Marine0.042.67
Marine Corps changes picture policy for tattoos0.046.0
Former Marine captain cleared in 2011 corpse urination video calls decision ‘vindicating’0.044.33
Marine security guard dies in Iraq after physical training0.047.33
Okinawa Marine recognized for saving restaurant worker’s life0.047.67
Marine Corps shuts down Southern Command rotational deployment0.046.0
Explosives missing from California Marine base have been found0.045.33
Marine Corps inspector general fired, counseled as result of deadly AAV accident-0.3347.0
Marine private first class dies during grueling final boot camp event0.6747.0
III MEF sends AAVs back in the water0.6746.0
Please leave your guns at home for boot camp graduation, Parris Island officials say0.6743.33
This new Marine Corps live-fire range has it all: robot enemies, rockets, mortars, breaching0.6747.33