Fox17 media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fox17 in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Fox17 biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fox17 in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Fox17 left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fox17 in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Fox17 reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Fox17 are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Fox17 has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Fox17’s own report linked underneath.
Three major news organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging a violation of First Amendment rights after their White House press credentials were revoked. The outlets seek immediate restoration of access.
Fox17 reported it asCNN, MS NOW and Politico to sue Trump administration over White House access (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
Gasoline prices in Michigan increased by 32 cents per gallon over the past week, marking the largest rise of any U.S. state during that period. This significant jump has been noted as one of the largest weekly increases in months.
Fox17 reported it asGas prices in Grand Rapids jump 30 cents in a matter of hours as Michigan average hits $4.51 (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
Gasoline and diesel prices are expected to increase significantly on Wednesday and Thursday, with analysts pointing to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran as primary drivers. The U.S. average diesel price has reached $6.301 per gallon, and gasoline is at $4.355 per gallon.
Fox17 reported it asGas prices in Grand Rapids jump 30 cents in a matter of hours as Michigan average hits $4.51 (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
A federal appeals court has invalidated a Trump administration order that compelled the JH Campbell coal plant in Michigan to remain operational beyond its planned retirement. The court found the Energy Department lacked the legal authority to issue such emergency orders.
Fox17 reported it asFederal court rejects Trump order keeping West Michigan coal plant open (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
A ceremony in Gander, Newfoundland, marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, bringing together passengers and responders who experienced the event. The town became a refuge for nearly 7,000 people when North American airspace closed.
Fox17 reported it asHow Gander, a small Canadian town, took in more than 6K passengers on September 11th (opens Fox17 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.
Fox17 reported it asNation remembers victims of 9/11 as US marks 25 years since attacks (opens Fox17 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'.
Fox17 reported it asFormer NBA player ejected from WNBA game after confrontation with Chicago player (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
President Donald Trump said a trade deal with Canada was "moving along" as a deadline for imposing tariffs on $28 billion of Canadian goods approached. Negotiators from both countries met in Washington on the day of the deadline.
Fox17 reported it asU.S. to impose 50% tariff on Canadian goods Wednesday unless new deal can be reached (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged five non-U.S. citizens with voting in the 2024 presidential election and one U.S. citizen with registering a non-citizen spouse. The cases stem from 38 referrals by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office, with 22 still under review.
Fox17 reported it asAG Nessel: 6 people charged for alleged voting crimes during 2024 November elections (opens Fox17 in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Fox17 reported it asElection day is here: What West Michigan voters need to know before heading to the polls (opens Fox17 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- E. W. Scripps CompanyCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Official site
- fox17online.com
- Seen publishing on
- fox17online.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Fox17 is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Fox17: its report arrived a median of 34 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Fox17, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Fox17 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.