Is The Mountain Press biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Mountain Press biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Mountain Press left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Mountain Press reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Mountain Press are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Mountain Press has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Mountain Press’s own report linked underneath.
A Government Accountability Office audit found the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, claimed $110bn in savings that were either inaccurate or unsupported. The report also revealed 128 of 206 DOGE employees had left by January 2026, and agencies withheld ethics records.
The Mountain Press reported it asGAO says DOGE couldn't substantiate much of its claimed savings (opens The Mountain Press 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 Mountain Press reported it asDemocrats accuse Republicans of partisanship in Fauci contempt vote (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing them of withholding unredacted files critical to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The state says repeated requests for information were ignored or denied, hindering its probe into alleged sex crimes.
The Mountain Press reported it asNew Mexico AG sues DOJ over state’s ongoing Epstein investigation (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The US Supreme Court will reconsider its gun law precedent this term, addressing cases involving assault weapons bans. All eight outlets carried the same digest, with no left-rated outlet covering the story and no specific case names mentioned.
The Mountain Press reported it asGun laws to be tested at U.S. Supreme Court (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Senator Alex Padilla proposed a bill to prohibit presidents and vice presidents from selling early access to their social media posts after Trump Media launched a premium service. The legislation targets what Democrats call an insider-information scheme, while right-rated outlets frame it as a partisan response.
The Mountain Press reported it asBill would bar Trump Media from selling early access to posts (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Tuesday on advancing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination after Republican senators secured written assurances that a $1.8 billion fund tied to the Trump-IRS settlement would not proceed. Democrats argue the guarantees fall short of permanent protections.
The Mountain Press reported it asIn Blanche confirmation process, Tillis wins a round against mercurial Trump (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The US Defence Department signed a framework deal on 3 August 2026 to triple Patriot missile production and quadruple THAAD output. The agreement, with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, establishes a second source for PAC-3 rocket motors and increases ignition safety device production, though its monetary value remains undisclosed.
The Mountain Press reported it asPentagon expands missile production with prices not yet set (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
The Mountain Press reported it asLatest executive order establishes military spouse commission (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Mountain Press.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- themountainpress.com
- Seen publishing on
- themountainpress.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
8 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 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Mountain Press ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Mountain Press: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Mountain Press, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Mountain Press 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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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.