WAFB 9 media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAFB 9 in the centre. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WAFB 9 biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAFB 9 in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WAFB 9 left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAFB 9 in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WAFB 9 reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WAFB 9 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 WAFB 9 has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WAFB 9’s own report linked underneath.
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts, alleging their abortion shield laws unconstitutionally facilitate the distribution of abortion drugs. A separate suit targets individuals and groups for shipping these drugs.
WAFB 9 reported it asLouisiana asks Supreme Court to stop states from shielding abortion pill providers (opens WAFB 9 in a new tab)
Iran's embassy in London has denied any involvement in a suspected plot targeting a U.S.-operated air base in England. Five British citizens were arrested near the base on suspicion of preparing a terror attack, and UK authorities are investigating potential links.
WAFB 9 reported it as5 men arrested on suspicion of terror offenses near UK air base used by US in Iran war (opens WAFB 9 in a new tab)
Former Illinois Deputy Sean Grayson, convicted of the 2024 shooting death of Sonya Massey, has died in prison. Grayson was serving a 20-year sentence and had been seeking medical release due to stage 4 cancer.
WAFB 9 reported it asSean Grayson, former deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison (opens WAFB 9 in a new tab)
Elon Musk posted on X that Derek Chauvin was 'unjustly convicted of murder' and should be freed, aligning with Chauvin's third legal attempt to overturn his 2021 conviction. Chauvin's attorneys allege procedural errors, including Governor Tim Walz's transfer of prosecutorial oversight to state officials.
WAFB 9 reported it asElon Musk calls for Derek Chauvin’s release; former officer files petition to overturn murder conviction (opens WAFB 9 in a new tab)
Rodney Mims Cook Jr, who oversees the expansion of the White House ballroom, met Kremlin officials including Anton Kobyakov during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2026. The U.S. State Department said it was unaware of the delegation, while the White House stated it continues to seek a constructive role in peace talks.
WAFB 9 reported it asTrump says people who oppose White House ballroom are ‘very disloyal to our country’ (opens WAFB 9 in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Gray TelevisionMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 19 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WAFB 9 is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WAFB 9: its report arrived a median of 15 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 October 2026. Ratings pulled 18 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WAFB 9, 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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