Ad Fontes Media Fully Rates 900th TV/Video Show

Our analysts achieved another milestone when they fully rated their 900th TV/video program a few weeks ago. Since three analysts rate each piece of content, that means we have bias and reliability scores for more than 2,700 videos and shows! That adds up to thousands of hours spent by our team watching TV and video news content.

The majority of our TV/video ratings are of local and national news shows from broadcast media like NBC, ABC, Fox and CBS, and from cable shows like those on CNN, MS NOW and Fox News. But 85 are YouTube channels, nine are Rumble shows and 70 are documentaries.

We rate documentaries because they are “news-like” content, and because of their depth on one topic, they can have unusual scores as compared to other types of news content like websites and podcasts. For example, a documentary might earn a very high reliability score, or a very high reliability score combined with a strong left or right bias score.

Keep in mind that a rating of a documentary is an analysis on one long piece of content, so it’s not exactly apples to apples to compare it with ratings of other shows or networks in similar areas of the chart. For example, every other TV show on our chart is made up of ratings from multiple episodes, and each network on our chart is made up of the ratings of all the shows on that network.

Today we’re releasing the newest monthly edition of our TV/video chart, which includes 46 of the 912 news and news-like TV and video shows fully rated by our team. We know it’s hard to see the logos of all 46 sources; you can see a list of them here).

The July TV/video chart features seven documentaries:

• CNN: The Road to War in the Middle East: A Fareed Zakaria Special
• Finding the Money
• HBO: The Alabama Solution
• MS NOW: Separated (MSNBC)
• Netflix: The Perfect Neighbor
• Thank You, Dr. Fauci
• The Age of Disclosure
  

Sources inside the green box of the chart have been found to be minimally biased and fact-based. Here’s a list of the 14 sources that qualified for the green box on the July edition of the TV/video chart.

• ABC (Australia): Foreign Correspondent
• C-SPAN Live Stream
• C-SPAN: Ceasefire
• CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil
• CNN: The Road to War in the Middle East: A Fareed Zakaria Special
• Fox News: Special Report w/ Bret Baier
• Fox News: The Journal Editorial Report
• HBO: The Alabama Solution
• i24: The Rundown
• MS NOW: Way Too Early with Ali Vitali (MSNBC)
• NBC News NOW: Morning News NOW
• Netflix: The Perfect Neighbor
• NewsNation: NewsNation Live Weekend with Keleigh Beeson
• PBS TV Network

10 TV/video sources are making their debut on the July Media Bias Chart®:

• ABC (Australia): Foreign Correspondent
• CNN: The Road to War in the Middle East: A Fareed Zakaria Special
• Finding the Money
• HBO: The Alabama Solution
• MS NOW: Alex Witt Reports (MSNBC)
• NBC: Today With Jenna & Sheinelle
• Newsmax: David Harris Jr. The Pulse
• The Comments Section (YouTube) with Reagan Conrad
• The Jim Acosta Show
• The National News Desk

Don’t see your favorite show on the July chart? That doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! As I said, we’ve rated more than 900 shows and only 46 are on this image, because that’s all that would fit. 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.

To get expanded access, you’ll need a News Newbie or News Nerd subscription. Our subscribers can search all sources our team has fully rated, with other added benefits, including invitations to our new Navigating the News with Vanessa series featuring our founder and CEO, Vanessa Otero!

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