KTIV media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KTIV in the centre. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KTIV biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KTIV in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KTIV left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KTIV in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KTIV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KTIV are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What KTIV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KTIV’s own report linked underneath.
Italy has concluded its 12-year military presence in Iraq, with the final troops returning home. Defence Minister Guido Crosetto stated this marks a new phase in bilateral relations, with the withdrawal completed before the September 30 deadline.
KTIV reported it asUS military withdraws from Iraq, ending years-long mission (opens KTIV in a new tab)
Two Republican members of the House of Representatives from Iowa voted in favour of a war powers resolution aimed at halting military action in Iran. This vote was the first of its kind for these two representatives.
KTIV reported it asTwo Iowa Republicans break with party on Iran war vote (opens KTIV 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.
KTIV reported it asNewly unveiled Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA headquarters (opens KTIV in a new tab)
The United States announced it would impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian products, effective early Saturday. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated Canada declined to finalize a trade deal on previously agreed terms, leading to the tariffs.
KTIV reported it asCanada will impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods beginning Sept. 8 (opens KTIV in a new tab)
A Missouri judge issued an arrest warrant for Jill Stein after she and her attorney failed to appear at a court hearing on 20 August 2026. The warrant was later dropped when her attorney appeared in court. Stein faces misdemeanour charges of trespassing and assault from an April 2024 protest at Washington University in St. Louis.
KTIV reported it asArrest warrant issued for 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein (opens KTIV 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Quincy MediaIndependentdirect owner
- Gray TelevisionMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 17 August 2026
5 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. KTIV is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KTIV: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 2 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 October 2026. Ratings pulled 16 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KTIV, 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 KTIV 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.