Over the past few years, our analysts have watched more than 4,000 videos and TV program episodes to rate them for bias and reliability. These include shows on cable news and TV networks, as well as videos on platforms such as Rumble and YouTube. 

And as we announced last month, we’ve now added documentaries to our lineup. We debuted the first documentary — HBO’s Stopping the Steal — on the Media Bias Chart® last month. 

This month we’ve added Am I Racist?, a documentary co-written by and starring Matt Walsh, who is a podcaster and columnist for The Daily Wire. You can see it in the center right portion of the chart, indicating a “strong right” bias and in the “opinion” section, according to our analysts. 

Documentaries are, of course, different in format from news articles, TV shows and podcasts. But we have started rating certain documentaries that are about current events and politics because they present information that strongly influences what viewers think about the subject matter. Their content can be judged for reliability and bias like news content can.

Keep in mind that a rating of a documentary is a rating 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, each 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. MSNBC’s and FOX’s overall network ratings are made up of dozens of shows and hundreds of episodes lower and higher than their overall rating. Episodes of Matt Walsh’s regular podcast, which you can find on our Interactive Media Bias Chart, have different ratings from this documentary. 

November’s TV/video chart features 56 of the 700 TV/video programs our team has fully rated. A list of these 56 sources is on our website. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

In addition to Am I Racist?, four shows and one YouTube channel appear on the Media Bias Chart® for the first time:

• CNN: Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju
• Destiny (YouTube)
• Merit Street Media: Morning on Merit Street
• Newsmax: Carl Higbie Frontline
• Scripps News: Morning Rush

Don’t see your favorite show on the November chart? That doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! It’s impossible to show hundreds of logos in one image — they overlap each other and the result is a completely unreadable chart. That’s why we choose a sample to feature each month.

If you want to check our ratings on more TV/video sources, you can access a selection of them for free on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® on our website. Or, you can search all sources we’ve rated on the free Media Bias Chart app, available for iPhone and Android. Daily search limits apply.

When you add in our web/print and podcast/audio ratings, our analysts have fully rated about 4,000 sources, with commercial data on over 11,100 sources. Become a subscriber to have additional access to our data!

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