The Morning Call media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Morning Call one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Morning Call biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Morning Call one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Morning Call left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Morning Call one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Morning Call reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Morning Call are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Morning Call has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Morning Call’s own report linked underneath.
The United States has refused visas to members of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's delegation, including his communications team, for the UN General Assembly. Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson described the action as an 'unprecedented hostile move'. The US has authorised the delegation's travel but imposed restrictions.
The Morning Call reported it asIran’s president delivers wartime address at UN: We have been ‘victims of terrorism’ (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic reported that a group in northern Yemen used its Claude chatbot to develop guidance software for weapons, including a guided rocket and a ballistic missile. The company banned the accounts after detecting the activity.
The Morning Call reported it asUsers in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
Two protesters were arrested outside the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas. Mounted police and officers in riot gear were deployed as demonstrators marched near the venue. Organisers estimated up to 10,000 people would attend separate rallies.
The Morning Call reported it asRepublicans slam Democrats and declare devotion to Trump during unusual midterm convention (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance stated that if the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump had been fatal, he would have suspected a conspiracy. Vance also discussed his interest in 'end times' theology and artificial intelligence during a podcast appearance.
The Morning Call reported it asVance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
Pennsylvania officer charged with manslaughter after shooting college student at wrong house
Trust 42A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting a 22-year-old college student who knocked on the wrong door. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced the charge on 1 September 2026, stating the officer’s actions were not justified.
The Morning Call reported it asMontco police officer charged in killing of college student who went to wrong house (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
A legal watchdog has filed bar complaints against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two subordinates. The complaints allege ethical violations in their attempt to charge six Democratic lawmakers over a video encouraging troops to resist unlawful orders.
The Morning Call reported it asWatchdog files bar complaint against Jeanine Pirro over bid to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
The US has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on drones and components, effective 3 September 2026, to address national security concerns and reduce dependence on Chinese imports. Drones over 25 kilograms or with thermal imaging face the highest duties, while smaller drones are subject to lower tariffs.
The Morning Call reported it asTrump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
Polish authorities arrested a Russian citizen on 7 August 2026, accusing him of plotting to kill a Ukrainian-American dual citizen in Warsaw. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the operation, carried out with US intelligence, was unprecedented as the first alleged Russian attempt to attack an American in a NATO state.
The Morning Call reported it asPoland says it thwarted a Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
Pennsylvania passed a law in July 2026 to overturn a 2025 court ruling that awarded mineral rights under state land to the Proctor family trust. The law, backed by the gas industry, may affect up to 1 million acres and has prompted constitutional challenges from the trust.
The Morning Call reported it asPa. has quietly passed a law undermining a court decision on lucrative mineral rights (opens The Morning Call in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 10 August 2026 to separate the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three individual shots and reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 to 11. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws, though states retain authority over vaccination requirements.
The Morning Call reported it asTrump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups’ guidance (opens The Morning Call 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Tribune Publishingunknowndirect owner
- Alden Global CapitalPrivate Equityparent group
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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 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.
On 4 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Morning Call ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Morning Call: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 25 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Morning Call, 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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