National Review Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Strong Right

Reliability: Mixed Reliability/Opinion OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates National Review in the Strong Right category of bias and as Mixed Reliability/Opinion OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. National Review is a biweekly conservative opinion magazine founded in 1955 by author William Buckley Jr. The website publishes commentary, blogs, podcasts, slideshows and videos, and in 2020 added a section on business and economics. Since 2015 the publication is published by the nonprofit National Review Institute.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 31.37

Bias: 12.85

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
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cheap-populism-wont-get-it-done-for-democrats/ 6.33 33.67
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnns-remarkable-footage-of-correspondent-freeing-syrian-prisoner-too-good-to-be-true/ 6 40.33
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/the-political-opportunists-are-making-this-a-silly-season-to-remember/ 2.67 34.33
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/no-its-not-world-war-iii-its-the-leverage-trump-needs/ 11.67 36.33
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/progressive-delusions-die-hard/ 16 27.67
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/senate-republicans-slam-the-gaetz-shut-and-save-trump/ 5.67 42
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/the-republican-family-just-got-a-lot-bigger/ 12 34.33
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/clint-eastwoods-lawfare-legal-brief/ 12.33 32
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/the-real-robert-f-kennedy-jr/ 12 28.67
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-spent-a-year-preparing-platforms-to-censor-biden-story-withheld-info-on-laptops-authenticity/amp/ 17.33 19.67
Nebraska Senate Race Doesn't Look All That Neck-and-Neck 6.67 37.33
Colorado Secretary of State's Office Exposed Voting-Machine Passwords to the Public 0 46.33
Campaign against Justice Gorsuch’s New Book Is an Embarrassment 14 31.33
Never Trust New York Times Reporting on Abortion 16.33 29.33
Halloween: Give Me Trick-or-Treats or Give Me Death 0 38.33
Trump’s Tax Bill Helped McDonald’s Franchisees 11.33 44
Kamala Harris Lies About Georgia Abortion Law During Call Her Daddy Interview 17.67 27.33
Chicago Mayor Johnson Makes Sure Fix Is In for Chicago Teachers Union 16.67 24.33
Voters Worried about Election Integrity. They Should Be 17 28
Canadian Provinces Median Earnings Below All U.S. States: Report 9.67 37.67
Butler Rally-Goers Wrestle with the Possibility of a Trump Loss 1.33 42.67
Mayorkas Warns FEMA Lacks Funding for Hurricane Cleanup after Agency Spent over a Billion on Migrants 11 27.67
Tim Walz Lost Rural and Small-Town Voters in 2022 Reelection 15 29.33
Media Are Misleading On Kamala Harris and Deficits 5 42.33
There Are Differences Between Trump and Lenin 15 29.33

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