Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Bill O'Reilly in the Hyper-Partisan Right category of bias and as Unreliable, Problematic in terms of reliability. 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.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Bill O'Reilly according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 21.72

Bias: 25.55

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
Is President Biden Calling the Shots?	22	25.33
Bill's Weekly Column	14.67	30.67
Can Donald Trump Mount a Comeback?	21	24.67
Nobody is Safe from Covid	5.33	31.67
BLM Responds to Looting in Chicago-Puts Blame on Police; ACLU Pushes for Open Borders & Brett Tolman on the Durham Investigation	22.33	34.33
Too Cool for School	32	17
By George, Let's Cancel	25	21.67
Bill's Weekly Column	30.67	16.67
Conventional Wisdom	29.67	28.33
Mobbed-Up	27.67	21
BLM Responds to Looting in Chicago-Puts Blame on Police; ACLU Pushes for Open Borders & Brett Tolman on the Durham Investigation	27.33	17
The People and Organizations Harming America: Bill O'Reilly's Special Report	28.2	19.4
Bill O'Reilly's No Spin Thoughts on Kamala Harris	31	18.33
The Amazon Jungle	26.33	22.33
The Anthem Blues	15.33	29.33
Bill's Message of the Day	18.67	26.33
The Strategy to Defeat President Trump	19.67	31.33
Joe Biden Against the Police	21.33	31.33
Polling My Liberal Friends	22	27