ABC 27 media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place ABC 27 in the centre. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is ABC 27 biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place ABC 27 in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is ABC 27 left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place ABC 27 in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is ABC 27 reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for ABC 27 are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What ABC 27 has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with ABC 27’s own report linked underneath.
Christa Pike, 50, remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Tennessee hospital following a failed execution attempt. Her lawyer stated she has not regained consciousness and her prognosis is uncertain.
ABC 27 reported it asChrista Pike’s lawyer says she has not regained consciousness since her failed Tennessee execution (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
Donald Trump told attendees at a White House Hispanic Heritage Month event that the construction site for his planned ballroom had holes so large that only a Hispanic person could survive a fall into them. He also touted his administration's economic record and border security.
ABC 27 reported it asTrump says ‘only a Hispanic could survive’ fall from White House ballroom (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
A Utah judge has ordered the release on bail of a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row. Prosecutors stated that new DNA evidence did not match him, leading to the decision despite objections from the victim's family.
ABC 27 reported it as‘A good day’: Man, 71, released after decades on Utah death row; awaits new trial (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
ABC 27 reported it asSept. 11 anniversary: Nation remembers 25 years later (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
Jimmy Kimmel announced his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico would not air on ABC due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pressure. The interview will instead be posted on YouTube. The decision comes amid a broader dispute between ABC's parent company, Disney, and the FCC over broadcast licenses.
ABC 27 reported it asKimmel pulls Talarico interview after FCC ‘threat’ (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
ABC 27 reported it asIndonesia keeps several airports closed though volcanic eruption is easing (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
ABC 27 reported it asIndonesia keeps several airports closed though volcanic eruption is easing (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
ABC 27 reported it asMidterm mail ballots start to go to voters as litigation over Trump’s order creates uncertainty (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
China was the sole dissenter from a G20 finance ministers' statement calling out 'non-market based economies pushing out a never-ending stream of cheap exports'. Nineteen members agreed to address global economic imbalances caused by such practices.
ABC 27 reported it asBessent says 19 finance ministers agreed ‘cheap exports’ are unsustainable, but China dissented (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
New documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Guardian appear to contradict statements made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding his 2019 visit to Samoa. Kennedy had told lawmakers the trip was unrelated to vaccines, but a letter he sent mentions vaccines eight times.
ABC 27 reported it asRFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
Influencer Hasan Piker's comments suggesting American Jews could face action for their support of Israel have drawn condemnation from several Democratic lawmakers. Some politicians are calling for stronger disavowals from those who have previously associated with Piker.
ABC 27 reported it asEl-Sayed weighs in on Piker controversy: ‘Nobody speaks for this campaign besides me’ (opens ABC 27 in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 27 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. ABC 27 is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of ABC 27: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 11 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 October 2026. Ratings pulled 26 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as ABC 27, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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