Is Dorset Eye biased?
Dorset Eye is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Dorset Eye biased?
Dorset Eye is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Dorset Eye left or right?
Dorset Eye is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is Dorset Eye reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Dorset Eye. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What Dorset Eye has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Dorset Eye’s own report linked underneath.
Ofcom has launched investigations into two GB News programmes after guest Caroline Farrow linked Pride parades to paedophilia and bestiality on air. More than 12,000 complaints were submitted about the 5 July broadcast, with an additional 3,000 about a June segment. The regulator confirmed the probes on 10 August 2026.
Dorset Eye reported it asGB News Investigated for Enabling Vile Homophobic Bigotry on Its Channel (opens Dorset Eye in a new tab)
Conservatives select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as council candidate despite far-right convictions
Trust 62The Conservative Party has selected Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi convicted of racially aggravated harassment and malicious communications, as a candidate for Somerset Council. Party leader Kemi Badenoch defended the decision, citing his rehabilitation and Home Office certification to train police on antisemitism.
Dorset Eye reported it asTory Party Faces Neo-Nazi Candidate Storm in Crewkerne (opens Dorset Eye in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed Dorset Eye. We asked on 8 August 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Dorset Eye.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- dorseteye.com
- Seen publishing on
- dorseteye.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
2 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. Dorset Eye has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Dorset Eye: its report arrived a median of 14 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 11 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Dorset Eye 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.