Is The McDowell News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The McDowell News in the centre. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The McDowell News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The McDowell News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The McDowell News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The McDowell News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The McDowell News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The McDowell News 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 The McDowell News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The McDowell News’s own report linked underneath.
Christine Grady, wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, raised her middle finger to a photographer outside their Washington, DC home on 7 August 2026. The incident followed a Senate committee vote to hold Fauci in contempt, with outlets on the right and left reporting the gesture but differing in emphasis and framing.
The McDowell News reported it asSenator requests that DOJ prosecute Fauci (opens The McDowell News in a new tab)
The US is negotiating with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping after five months of conflict, but Vice President JD Vance says Washington does not trust Tehran’s promises. Iran says the strait will reopen only if the US accepts its conditions, which remain unspecified.
The McDowell News reported it asProposed Hormuz deal would give Iran control (opens The McDowell News in a new tab)
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) announced he will not seek re-election after the House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of sexual harassment. The committee recommended censure, citing lavish gifts and inappropriate behavior toward two women staffers. Edwards will complete his current term.
The McDowell News reported it asWho will replace Chuck Edwards? GOP begins search for new candidate (opens The McDowell News in a new tab)
Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have captured the most detailed images yet of the Sun’s visible surface, showing vortex-like plasma patterns ranging from 19 to 170 kilometres in diameter. The findings, published in Nature, could improve understanding of coronal mass ejections and space weather.
The McDowell News reported it asVortex-like patterns observed on sun's surface (opens The McDowell News in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
The McDowell News reported it asPanel votes to hold Fauci in contempt (opens The McDowell News in a new tab)
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
The McDowell News reported it asFIFA apologizes to members as Infantino holds crisis meeting (opens The McDowell News 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
We hold no ownership record for The McDowell News.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- mcdowellnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- mcdowellnews.com
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 August 2026
6 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. The McDowell News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The McDowell News: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
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Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The McDowell News, 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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