Times of San Diego media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Times of San Diego in the centre. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Times of San Diego biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Times of San Diego in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Times of San Diego left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Times of San Diego in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Times of San Diego reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Times of San Diego 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 Times of San Diego has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Times of San Diego’s own report linked underneath.
USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 200-day Middle East mission amid crew welfare concerns
Trust 78The USS Abraham Lincoln reached Thailand after a 200-day deployment in the Middle East, the longest continuous sea duty in modern US Navy history. Reports of supply shortages, morale problems, and a possible suicide attempt prompted a Senate inquiry and a replacement carrier dispatch.
Times of San Diego reported it asUSS Abraham Lincoln makes rest stop in Thailand before return to San Diego (opens Times of San Diego in a new tab)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest single monthly total during the second Trump administration. This figure represents a 15% increase from June and a 70% increase from February.
Times of San Diego reported it asICE arrests in July reached nearly 50,000, the highest total in any month of Trump’s second term (opens Times of San Diego in a new tab)
The Trump administration is implementing new regulations that extend beyond border enforcement, targeting immigrants through measures like limiting tax credit refunds and requiring English proficiency for truck drivers.
Times of San Diego reported it asICE arrests in July reached nearly 50,000, the highest total in any month of Trump’s second term (opens Times of San Diego 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.
Times of San Diego reported it asTrump to Navy: scrap General Atomics electric catapults and return to steam (opens Times of San Diego in a new tab)
USS Abraham Lincoln crew endure record deployment amid food shortages and mental health crisis
Trust 96The USS Abraham Lincoln has spent over 250 days at sea without docking, the longest continuous deployment on record. Reports describe food shortages, malfunctioning toilets and sailors attempting to jump overboard. Congressional Democrats have demanded an explanation from the defence secretary.
Times of San Diego reported it asReports: USS Lincoln sailors face mental health issues in long deployment off Iran (opens Times of San Diego in a new tab)
The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill early on 8 August 2026, funding federal agencies through 11 December. The 90-6 vote included Democratic provisions to block money transfers to the Border Patrol and delay a national ban on intoxicating hemp products. The House must approve the measure before it reaches the President.
Times of San Diego reported it asCalifornia senators support funding patch measure, hope to prevent potential shutdown come fall (opens Times of San Diego 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- NEWSWELLIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States
- Official site
- timesofsandiego.com
- Seen publishing on
- timesofsandiego.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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 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. Times of San Diego 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 Times of San Diego: its report arrived a median of 33 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Times of San Diego, 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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