Navy Times Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

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

Bias: -0.14

Reliability: 46.05

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.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

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 the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting 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 source’s overall bias score.

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 source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart®️, 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, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

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
US completes withdrawal from al-Asad airbase, Iraq says0.6742.0
This officer went from being a homeless teenager to a nurse on the USS Ford0.046.33
Navy turns to new Aegis Virtual Maintenance Trainer to boost crews’ self-sufficiency at sea0.049.0
Citing OPSEC, Navy mum on sailor’s overseas death0.044.67
Capitol Police request National Guard support for Sept. 18 rally backing Jan. 6 rioters-1.3345.67
VA staff have a few days left to get COVID vaccines or get fired0.047.0
Two upcoming documents will reveal how the US Navy should fight in a great power competition1.044.0
Veterans treatment court program working, but needs VA improvement to increase access: watchdog0.046.0
Family releases statement about Navy corpsman killed trying to help evacuees in Afghanistan0.048.67
ISIS-K ‘planner’ killed in drone strike, CENTCOM says0.048.33
‘Just one more’: Inside the massive military community effort to save Afghans0.049.67
Posting supremacist content, dealing firearms nets sailor 23 months of confinement-0.6747.67
DoD planned to send billions on Afghan security forces. This group has a suggestion for those funds0.048.0
Guided-missile destroyer Mahan returns to Norfolk after deployment0.043.33
Senate confirms Del Toro as 78th SECNAV0.043.33
U.S. Navy dispatches aircraft to help with Greek wildfires0.045.0
Here’s why CENTCOM thinks Iran was behind a fatal drone attack on a ship last month0.042.0
Feds indict junior sailor for cyberstalking0.045.67
Merle Smith, first Black graduate of Coast Guard Academy, dies-146.33
Asian Americans lobby to name Navy ship for Filipino sailor-1.6746.33
‘Passion bordering on anger’: The inside story behind the CO’s firing on the destroyer Forrest Sherman0.048.0