Commercial News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Commercial News as leaning left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Commercial News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Commercial News as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Commercial News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Commercial News as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Commercial News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Commercial News are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Commercial News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Commercial News’s own report linked underneath.
A federal judge has lifted a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The Supreme Court ruled a previous challenge was premature, but states have filed a new lawsuit arguing the USPS rule interferes with election administration.
Commercial News reported it asIllinois attorney general Kwame Raoul joins suit against Postal Service over mail voting rules (opens Commercial News in a new tab)
Former Illinois Deputy Sean Grayson, convicted of the 2024 shooting death of Sonya Massey, has died in prison. Grayson was serving a 20-year sentence and had been seeking medical release due to stage 4 cancer.
Commercial News reported it asFormer Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson convicted of murder dies while in custody (opens Commercial News in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced new permit and tax exemption rules for data centres, requiring full electricity cost payment and water use limits. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered regulators to prevent higher electricity bills from data centres and pledged to end a billion-dollar annual tax break. Both moves follow rising public opposition to the energy-intensive facilities.
Commercial News reported it asData centers emerging as key issue in Illinois governor’s race (opens Commercial News in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Commercial News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- commercial-news.com
- Seen publishing on
- commercial-news.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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 19 August 2026
3 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.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Commercial News ran the story anyway.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Commercial News: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 3 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 29 August 2026. Ratings pulled 18 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Commercial News, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Commercial News publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.