Overall Score

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

Reliability: 46.25

Bias: -0.18

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
This officer went from being a homeless teenager to a nurse on the USS Ford	0	46.33
Navy turns to new Aegis Virtual Maintenance Trainer to boost crews’ self-sufficiency at sea	0	49
Citing OPSEC, Navy mum on sailor’s overseas death	0	44.67
Capitol Police request National Guard support for Sept. 18 rally backing Jan. 6 rioters	-1.33	45.67
VA staff have a few days left to get COVID vaccines or get fired	0	47
Two upcoming documents will reveal how the US Navy should fight in a great power competition	1	44
Veterans treatment court program working, but needs VA improvement to increase access: watchdog	0	46
Family releases statement about Navy corpsman killed trying to help evacuees in Afghanistan	0	48.67
ISIS-K ‘planner’ killed in drone strike, CENTCOM says	0	48.33
‘Just one more’: Inside the massive military community effort to save Afghans	0	49.67
Posting supremacist content, dealing firearms nets sailor 23 months of confinement	-0.67	47.67
DoD planned to send billions on Afghan security forces. This group has a suggestion for those funds	0	48
Guided-missile destroyer Mahan returns to Norfolk after deployment	0	43.33
Senate confirms Del Toro as 78th SECNAV	0	43.33
U.S. Navy dispatches aircraft to help with Greek wildfires	0	45
Here’s why CENTCOM thinks Iran was behind a fatal drone attack on a ship last month	0	42
Feds indict junior sailor for cyberstalking	0	45.67
Merle Smith, first Black graduate of Coast Guard Academy, dies	-1	46.33
Asian Americans lobby to name Navy ship for Filipino sailor	-1.67	46.33
‘Passion bordering on anger’: The inside story behind the CO’s firing on the destroyer Forrest Sherman	0	48