Center does not mean better.
That is not our line — it is AllSides’, in bold, on their own ratings page. It is also the whole reason this site puts every outlet on one beam instead of sorting them into good and bad.
“Center does not mean better! A Center rating does not mean the outlet is neutral, unbiased or reasonable — it may still omit important perspectives, or run individual articles that display bias.”
AllSides, Media Bias Ratings
The five ratings
AllSides publishes a sixth, Mixed, for an outlet whose own content disagrees with itself. No outlet in this feed currently carries it.
How AllSides decides
A rating is not one person’s opinion. AllSides publishes which methods produced each one, and a confidence level — Low or Initial, Medium, or High — based on how many methods agreed and how strong the data was.
- Editorial review. A multipartisan panel of six to nine reviewers reads for slant, spin, sensationalism and story choice, scoring on a −6 to +6 scale.
- Blind bias survey. Ordinary Americans across the spectrum rate headlines and articles without being told the source.
- Independent review. A single reviewer assesses observable patterns and whatever the outlet says about its own leanings.
- Third-party data. Academic work and external surveys, where the method behind them is transparent.
- Community feedback. Readers vote. Those votes are published but do not determine the rating — they are not normalized across demographics.
What a rating is not
- Not a measure of accuracy.Bias and truthfulness are different questions. A Left or Right outlet can be scrupulously factual; a Center one can be wrong.
- Not a verdict on an article.Ratings describe an outlet’s online news content as a whole. Any single piece may sit well to either side of its outlet’s mark.
- Not permanent.AllSides describes its ratings as fluid, changing as outlets change and as more evidence arrives.
- Not a score.There is no ranking here. Left and Right are positions, not grades.
Who is in this feed
A story’s average position and its blind spot are both counted from which outlets covered it. If this roster leaned one way, every average would lean with it and one side’s blind spots would be mechanically rarer than the other’s. So we keep the two sides level, and print the count rather than asking you to take our word.
Level — 20 either side, with 11 rated Center.
Level counts are not level volume. Some outlets publish ten times what others do. That is why an average counts distinct outlets rather than articles: one outlet filing six times still moves the average once.
Choosing the roster is itself an editorial act. Which outlets are here at all is a decision, and no methodology hides that. Two outlets AllSides rates Lean Right — The Epoch Times and ZeroHedge — are deliberately not here, which is our judgment and not AllSides’. You should weigh that the same way you weigh anything else on this page.
When a rating moved
Ratings are not permanent. An outlet changes hands, changes editor, or changes; AllSides re-rates it and we follow. Every one of those moves is written to an append-only record the moment it happens, and this is that record, in full.
No rating has moved yet. Every outlet on the site still carries the rating it was seeded with, and the first time one of them changes it will appear here with the date it happened.
What we have not verified
None of the 51 ratings here are verified against AllSides’ licensed feed. They are read from AllSides’ public ratings and re-checked by hand against that list — an audit on 4 September 2026 found six of our own entries out of date and corrected them. They are shown because they are useful, and marked because you should be able to tell the difference.
Bias ratings from AllSides Media Bias Ratings™. Unbiased links to source articles rather than reproducing them.