LA Times Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Los Angeles Times in the Skews Left category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that has covered Southern California since 1881. The LA Times has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in America.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 42.54

Bias: -6.35

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
These L.A. tenants want to own their buildings. L.A. is collecting millions to help -2 48.67
Phillips 66 faces federal charges over alleged wastewater dumping at Carson refinery -1.33 48.67
Former L.A. City Councilman Ridley-Thomas’ ultimate campaign: To clear his name 0 47
Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s pick for attorney general -1.67 45
California bomb cyclone storm: When will rains hit L.A. area and how bad will it be? 0 45.33
Wendell Pierce hated World Series Game 5: The ‘ugliness of humanity’ sent him home early 0 22.33
Dodgers rally from five runs down to defeat Yankees and win World Series 0 45
Dodgers star Fernando Valenzuela, who changed MLB by sparking Fernandomania, dies at 63 -2.33 46.33
Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, CDC says 0 44.33
Orange County supervisor accepted over $550,000 in bribes, will plead guilty to conspiracy charge, feds say -1.33 46.33
Relatives of Erik and Lyle Menendez urge D.A. to resentence the convicted brothers 0 45
The 'Latino vote' is a myth, as my Southwest road trip shows -13.33 36.33
L.A. Catholic Church to pay record settlement over clergy abuse; cumulative payouts top $1.5 billion 0 46
Liam Payne, veteran of One Direction, dies in fall from balcony of Buenos Aires hotel 0 43
The Tijuana River smells so bad, the CDC is coming to investigate 0 44
Depression was rising among young people in Southern California. COVID made it worse 0 43.67
The fate of magic mushrooms in California is unclear. Some wellness businesses are using them anyway -14.33 47.33
She ate a Costco salad before giving birth. After a drug test, authorities took her baby away 0 42.33
A wall of secrets may crumble as feds call out enablers of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ alleged sex crimes 0 46.33
‘It’s really sad’: River dries up abruptly in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish -1.67 47.67
Shohei Ohtani does it! Dodgers star first to 50-50 mark in three-homer, 10-RBI day 0 45.67
Rare September rain due in Southern California, with some areas under flood watch 0 44.33
Sex tourism in Indonesia sells itself as Islamic temporary marriage 0 56.67
Sleepless nights, flames and heat for O.C. residents threatened by Airport fire 0 47.67
Southern California is suddenly besieged by fire. Experts say fall will be worse -0.33 46.67

 

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