The Press-Enterprise media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places The Press-Enterprise as leaning right. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Press-Enterprise biased?
Ad Fontes Media places The Press-Enterprise as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Press-Enterprise left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places The Press-Enterprise as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Press-Enterprise reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes The Press-Enterprise as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Press-Enterprise has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Press-Enterprise’s own report linked underneath.
The California Supreme Court has ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return approximately 650,000 ballots seized from a November 2025 special election. The court ruled Bianco's seizure was unlawful, siding with the state's Attorney General Rob Bonta.
The Press-Enterprise reported it asCalifornia Supreme Court rules against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in ballot seizure fight (opens The Press-Enterprise in a new tab)
Donald Trump has blamed President Joe Biden for the deaths of 13 US service members at Abbey Gate in 2021. Trump made the remarks on the fifth anniversary of the attack, which occurred during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The ISIS-K terrorist responsible was identified.
The Press-Enterprise reported it as3 Camp Pendleton Marines who defended Abbey Gate receive upgraded medals (opens The Press-Enterprise in a new tab)
Three Marines have received upgraded valor awards for their actions following the 2021 Abbey Gate attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presided over the ceremony, honouring the Marines' heroism amidst the chaos that killed 13 U.S. service members.
The Press-Enterprise reported it as3 Camp Pendleton Marines who defended Abbey Gate receive upgraded medals (opens The Press-Enterprise 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 Press-Enterprise reported it asTrump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers (opens The Press-Enterprise 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.
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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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Press-Enterprise.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- pressenterprise.com
- Seen publishing on
- pressenterprise.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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 15 August 2026
4 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Press-Enterprise ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Press-Enterprise: its report arrived a median of 15 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 29 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 29 September 2026. Ratings pulled 14 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Press-Enterprise, 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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