Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Just the News in the Skews Right category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Just the News is a news organization “committed to just reporting facts from journalists with a long record of public trust and excellence.” Information is presented via a website, podcasts and videos. Just the News was founded by political commentator John Solomon in January 2020 and is based in Washington, D.C.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 33.31

Bias: 10.70

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
Israel launches overnight strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah after exploding devices attack	6.67	40.33
RNC’s embrace of Trump platform signals shift in GOP as old guard fades in influence	8.33	40.67
Earliest COVID-19 vaccine recipients wrote in tens of thousands of injuries left off CDC surveys	22	19.67
Echoes of Afghanistan? Biden faces criticism for lack of U.S. evacuation operation in Israel	17.67	34.67
Sex, drugs and unemployment, Newsom's centrist vetos extend speculation about late presidential bid	2	41.67
Public support for border wall soars amid immigration crisis: poll	10.33	23.67
Nearly 9,000 Ford workers at Kentucky plant join UAW strike	2	43.33
Ten major revelations exposing extent of government pressure on Big Tech to censor Americans	16	17.67
Kirk Cameron welcomes critics at his library events as 'opportunity' to change their mind	5.33	38
House approves amendment to protect gas stoves from Biden admin, two dozen Democrats support	9.33	40.67
Liberal judge's lenient sentencing under scrutiny in last lap of pivotal Wisconsin high court race	18.33	34.67
'Unacceptable incompetence': CDC made dozens of basic data errors on COVID, epidemiologists find	21	17.67
McCarthy says reversing Biden natural gas barriers will lower energy costs, emissions and threats	16.67	36.67
Trump media group's social network site TRUTH sets February launch date	0.33	45.67
Alan Dershowitz: Kyle Rittenhouse 'should be acquitted,' sue media for calling him 'vigilante'	7	37
Mexican president compares social media censorship in U.S. to Spanish Inquisition	5	33.33
Putin opponent Alexei Navalny detained after arriving in Russia	-0.33	47
Loews Hotels cancels Sen. Hawley fundraiser slated to take place at its facility	7	42.67
Concerned FBI agent started an 'enhanced validation' of Christopher Steele, but bosses stopped it	15	30.67
Double-masking becomes latest effort in fending off the coronavirus	1.67	39.67
Pentagon spent $174 million on drones for Afghan army that now can’t be accounted for	5.67	40.67
After bitter election, GOP newcomer to focus on election integrity in first term	4.67	37.67
Former Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley launches Stand Up for America PAC	4.67	44.67
American B-52 bombers fly 'presence patrol' over Middle East	4.67	44.33
During current COVID wave, Florida is outperforming California with fewer restrictions	2.33	45.33