KDNL media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KDNL as leaning right. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KDNL biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KDNL as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KDNL left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KDNL as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is KDNL reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KDNL 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 KDNL has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KDNL’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration is reportedly pressuring the National Park Service to transfer a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private developer, Kingsbarn Realty Capital. The developer seeks the land to build a road connecting its property to the park, raising conservation concerns.
KDNL reported it asTrump administration weighs Yosemite land swap for private access road: reports (opens KDNL in a new tab)
The Kennedy Center may need to be demolished if extensive renovations are blocked, lawyers stated in court papers. A $250 million project is linked to the potential demolition, while a legal challenge seeks to prevent the inscription of Donald Trump's name on the building.
KDNL reported it asJustice Department warns Kennedy Center may face demolition without renovation plan (opens KDNL in a new tab)
Alex Justin Miller, 26, of Columbus, Ohio, has been arrested and charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure. He is accused of sending emails containing threats to kill President Donald Trump and behead Florida Congressman Randy Fine.
KDNL reported it as'DEATH TO DONALD TRUMP!' Man accused of threatening to kill Trump, behead lawmaker: DOJ (opens KDNL 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
- Sinclair Broadcast GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Official site
- abcstlouis.com
- Seen publishing on
- abcstlouis.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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 25 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and KDNL 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 KDNL: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 11 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 September 2026. Ratings pulled 24 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KDNL, 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 KDNL 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.