The Stream Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Hyper-Partisan Right

Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The Stream in the Hyper-Partisan Right category of bias and as Unreliable, Problematic in terms of reliability. The Stream is a news and opinion website “launched to equip Christians to think clearly about the moral, political and economic issues of the day.” Founded in 2015 by Christian televangelist James Robison, The Stream is part of Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc. and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 19.41

Bias: 22.92

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
Hillary Clinton: Trump’s Phone Records Should be Checked to See if He Called Putin During Capitol Riot 9.67 40
Biden has Promised to Undo These Pro-Life Policies 15 38.33
The Left Wants to Eliminate Competing Ideas 21 27.33
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media 16.33 36
Who’s Really Happy? Who’s Really Sad? Who’s Really ‘The Guy’? 22.67 28
I Have Stood Up To the Russian Mafia, I Have Praised God in the Kremlin, and I Will Not Live by Fear 20.67 24.33
11 Questions the Left and NeverTrumpers Can’t Answer Honestly 18 25.67
Everything You Need to Know About 2020 Election Fraud, but the Media Won’t Let You Ask 28.67 16.33
First They Came for the NRA … 25.33 24.33
The St. Louis AR-15 Couple and Other Signs of Hope 25.67 24.67
For Our Leftist Elites, the Double Standard’s Meant to Be Blatant. That’s the Point 23.67 26
Annual March for Life Canceled in Person, But It’s Only Partly Due to Coronavirus 5 43.67
If We Are to be Hated, Let It Be for the Right Reason 8.67 32
Democrats Don’t Act Like People with Nothing to Hide 24.33 17.33
The March for Life Throws in the Towel: Will It Ever Take Place Again? 21.33 21.67
Franklin Graham Rips House Republicans Who Voted for Impeachment, Claims They Betrayed Trump 3.33 45
Why a Biden Presidency Could Be Good for the Church 11.67 30.33
‘Pray On MLK’ Grassroots Initiative Seeks Gospel-Centered Unity 1.33 44.67
Have the Seven Seals of the Book of Revelation Been Opened? 11.67 32.67
This is More Important Than Recognizing ‘The Mark of the Beast’ 18.67 31.67
Sorry, But the American Flag is Not Directly Related to the Banner of Christ 18.33 34
Trumpism and Nationalism — A Response to Division and Divisiveness in the Church 24.67 24.67
Georgia Election Official Who Smacked Trump for Election Challenge Reports Woman for Using His Address to Cast Illegal Vote 21 19
Will Biden’s Coup Be Successful? 35 5.67
Who Dumped a Violent, Autistic 20-Year-Old COVID Patient on This Nursing Home and Why? 32.83 16.5

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