Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The Dispatch in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. The Dispatch is a digital media company that presents news and commentary on politics, policy and culture “informed by conservative principles.” The Dispatch website was launched in October 2019, and the company also presents information via newsletters and podcasts.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 41.20

Bias: 5.28

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
Haley’s Civil War Gaffe Shocked Us Because Such Missteps Are Rare	7	36
Joe Biden’s New Debt Forgiveness Plan, Explained	1.33	43
We’ll Always Have Turner Classic Movies … or Will We?	-1.33	37.67
The Long Reign of King Dollar	6.67	43
Erdoğan Faces an Electoral Abyss	0.67	49
Beijing’s American Hostages	1.67	46
Will One Man’s Stroke Determine Control of the Senate?	-3.33	42.67
A Tale of Two GOP Responses to the Trump Search	-2.67	39.33
The Morning Dispatch: U.S. Kills al-Qaeda Leader	3.67	45.67
The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger	-4	37.67
The God Gap Helps Explain a 'Seismic Shift' in American Politics	-2	38.33
A Crucial Court Case Exposes the Darkness of America’s Worst Industry	6.33	42
There Is No Remaining Christian Case for Trump	12.33	31.67
The Descent of Men	12.33	26.33
Inconvenient Truths	0	27.67
Fact Checking the State of the Union	4.67	42.33
Stirewaltisms: It’s Time for an Age Limit for Federal Office	0	32
Welcome to the New Cold War	8.33	37.33
Putin Should Be Careful What He Wishes For	1.67	32.67
How Russian Propaganda Paints the West as Aggressors in Ukraine	-2	45.33
The Sweep: Explaining the Biden Slump	0	38
A Bipartisan Push for War Powers Reform	0	42.67
The Great Disappearing Worker	2.33	37.33
It’s Decision Time on Iran	11.67	35.67
A Third Party Could Cure What Ails the GOP	2.67	37.33