KOTA media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KOTA in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KOTA biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KOTA in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KOTA left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KOTA in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KOTA reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KOTA 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 KOTA has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KOTA’s own report linked underneath.
The Department of Homeland Security agreed to pay $214 million for five aircraft from a company chaired by a political donor to Kristi Noem. The purchases occurred on Noem's last day as DHS secretary, with reports indicating substantial markups on the planes.
KOTA reported it asKristi Noem Denies Report of Marked-Up DHS Jet Purchases (opens KOTA in a new tab)
President Donald Trump cut short his weekend at Camp David to return to the White House on Saturday. The move coincided with a US security alert warning of potential rapid escalation in the Middle East due to the Saudi-Houthi conflict.
KOTA reported it asTrump says US and Iranian officials met Tuesday, shortly after warning he may ‘annihilate’ Iran (opens KOTA in a new tab)
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he helped end the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025. He also stated that Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked him for saving lives and called Sharif a 'terrific man'.
KOTA reported it asTrump says US and Iranian officials met Tuesday, shortly after warning he may ‘annihilate’ Iran (opens KOTA in a new tab)
US Attorney General Todd Blanche stated the FBI has new information regarding the attacker in the 2024 attempt on Donald Trump's life. Trump claimed on social media that the assassination attempt was a "Democrat plot" to remove him from the election, though investigations concluded the shooter acted alone.
KOTA reported it asTrump blames Biden administration for handling of assassination attempt at Pennsylvania campaign rally (opens KOTA in a new tab)
Donald Trump alleged the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, was a 'Democratic Plot' to remove him from the election. The FBI has found no connections between the suspect and others, and Trump offered no evidence for his claim.
KOTA reported it asTrump blames Biden administration for handling of assassination attempt at Pennsylvania campaign rally (opens KOTA in a new tab)
Newly released FBI documents offer further insight into Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump on July 13, 2024. The records, obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee, include interviews with Crooks' father and describe his withdrawn personality and growing interest in weapons.
KOTA reported it asTrump blames Biden administration for handling of assassination attempt at Pennsylvania campaign rally (opens KOTA in a new tab)
A newly unveiled statue of Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters was defaced with red paint. The vandalism occurred days after the statue's unveiling and coincided with the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
KOTA reported it asNewly unveiled Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA headquarters (opens KOTA in a new tab)
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has asked the state attorney general to investigate the conduct of U.S. Justice Department election observers during the state's primary election. Gordon described the observers' behaviour as "aggressive" and "irregular."
KOTA reported it asGov. Gordon concerned by ‘aggressive’ DOJ election observers during Wyoming’s primary election (opens KOTA in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
KOTA reported it asAt least 160 killed, hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China (opens KOTA in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
KOTA reported it asAt least 160 killed, hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China (opens KOTA 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for KOTA.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- kotatv.com
- Seen publishing on
- kotatv.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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 27 August 2026
10 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. KOTA 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 KOTA: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 October 2026. Ratings pulled 26 September 2026.
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