Awful Announcing media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Awful Announcing in the centre. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Awful Announcing biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Awful Announcing in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Awful Announcing left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Awful Announcing in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Awful Announcing reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Awful Announcing are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Awful Announcing has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Awful Announcing’s own report linked underneath.
Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo mocking South Asian students at a University of Texas football game. Republican leaders John Cornyn and Dustin Burrows condemned the post, and former adviser Karl Rove said he will vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal.
Awful Announcing reported it asRepublican Bo French's racist X post about Longhorn fans earns rebukes from Texas Republicans (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump stated the United States does not need Canada, while simultaneously imposing a 50% tariff on Canadian aluminum. Reports highlight the significant economic interdependence between the two nations, with Canada being the US's second-largest trading partner.
Awful Announcing reported it asAl Michaels makes not-so-subtle Trump joke on 'Thursday Night Football' (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
Awful Announcing reported it asShannon Sharpe calls out Enes Kanter for 'rage-baiting': 'He gonna run to Fox News' (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
Awful Announcing reported it asWNBA calls out Enes Kanter Freedom 'publicity stunt': 'Not going to give oxygen to efforts ... to mock the league' (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after the paper declined to publish his column on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Calkins said the decision followed interviews with student-athletes opposing transgender participation in female sports, and that the paper had rejected other proposed columns. The Seattle Times has not commented.
Awful Announcing reported it asSeattle Times columnist resigns after paper scrapped Sophie Cunningham piece (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
Michele Tafoya secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Minnesota on 11 August 2026, overcoming the party-endorsed Adam Schwarze. No Republican has won a Senate seat in the state since 2002. Her campaign focuses on fraud prevention, law enforcement support, and tax cuts.
Awful Announcing reported it asFormer NFL reporter Michele Tafoya wins Minnesota Senate primary: 'It's common sense versus crazy' (opens Awful Announcing in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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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.
High factuality
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Awful Announcing.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
- Official site
- awfulannouncing.com
- Seen publishing on
- awfulannouncing.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
6 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. Awful Announcing is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Awful Announcing: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 17 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Awful Announcing, also publishing from United States, 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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