Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Military Times in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Military Times is an independent news source for members of the U.S. military and their families. Now owned by Sightline Media Group, part of Regent, it began in 1940 as Army Times. It is now comprised of Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times. It is based in Northern Virginia.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 46.94

Bias: -0.23

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
Top US general in Africa: ‘Wildfire of terrorism’ on march here	1.33	40.67
Army vet marching 1,800 miles to fight veteran suicide	0	47.67
End the National Guard mission at the US Capitol	1.33	37
Pilots, maintainers are worn out and under-trained, aviation safety commission says	3.67	41.33
Why San Antonio should host US Space Command	0	35
Biden’s pick for VA secretary may be a post-9/11 veteran	-2	48
What troops think of Biden and Trump, and a shark joins swim call	-0.67	47.33
New coalition urges states to get their absentee ballots in time to troops, families, overseas voters	-1.33	50.33
Natural disasters, a pandemic, and unrest. The National Guard remains busy	1.33	49.33
Overseas military, family members now have this free express mail option for their absentee ballot	-0.67	53.67
City of San Antonio illegally auctioned off more than 200 troops’ vehicles, DOJ alleges	-0.33	52.67
Post office officials backtrack on service changes that delayed veterans’ prescriptions	-1.75	50
US troop deployments in Iraq to be focus of White House talks this week	-4	47
Trump vows US troops in Iraq will return home soon	0.33	49
Inconsistencies in account of paratrooper’s disappearance and homicide trouble his family	-0.33	49.67
Trump says he didn’t raise issue of bounties on U.S. troops during phone call with Putin	1.33	48.67
Thousands of troops are coming home from Germany, but some of them could be going right back	0	49
Investigation shows VA took nine months to dismiss physician who taunted suicidal patient	-2.33	48.67