WCTI media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give WCTI one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WCTI biased?
The rating organisations do not give WCTI one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WCTI left or right?
The rating organisations do not give WCTI one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is WCTI reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WCTI are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WCTI has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WCTI’s own report linked underneath.
Record-high diesel prices have prompted Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to call for an embargo on exports. Farm state Republicans are pressuring the White House to stop exports, citing the impact on farmers and truckers.
WCTI reported it asSurging diesel prices add to affordability pressures weeks before midterms (opens WCTI in a new tab)
Yemen's Houthi movement claimed to have launched missile and drone attacks on sensitive sites in Riyadh and Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The group stated the strikes were retaliation for Saudi attempts to hit Sana'a. Saudi Arabia has not officially confirmed the claims.
WCTI reported it asHouthis claim attacks on Riyadh as fire erupts near Saudi airport (opens WCTI in a new tab)
Saudi Arabia confirmed an attempted ballistic missile attack on its capital, Riyadh, by Houthi rebels. The Saudi-led coalition stated the missile was intercepted. The Houthis claimed to have targeted sensitive sites in Riyadh and oil facilities in Yanbu, reporting significant fires.
WCTI reported it asHouthis claim attacks on Riyadh as fire erupts near Saudi airport (opens WCTI in a new tab)
An American flag was unfurled at sunrise at the Pentagon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ceremony honored the 184 military personnel and civilians who died at the Pentagon.
WCTI reported it asMassive American flag unfurls over Pentagon for 9/11 anniversary (opens WCTI in a new tab)
The Justice Department and Treasury Department have taken action against Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language marketplace operating on Telegram. Authorities seized Telegram channels and cryptocurrency wallets tied to the platform, which allegedly served as an escrow service for online scam centers.
WCTI reported it asDOJ takes down Chinese scam network targeting 'every American with a retirement account' (opens WCTI in a new tab)
Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks are calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to not attend the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony at Ground Zero. A petition to ban him has gathered over 98,000 signatures, and families plan to ignore him if he attends.
WCTI reported it as9/11 victim families; 100,000 other petitioners don't want Mamdani at memorial ceremonies (opens WCTI in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed Iran is behind recent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, stating the rebels act as proxies for Tehran. The conflict is occurring amid broader regional tensions and uncertainty in oil exports.
WCTI reported it asRubio on Houthis striking Saudi oil sites: 'Some of this is clearly the Iranian hand' (opens WCTI in a new tab)
Excavation for a planned 250-foot-tall arch in Washington, D.C. is set to begin within two weeks, the Trump administration announced. The project faces a lawsuit and criticism over its potential impact on historic sightlines.
WCTI reported it asTrump administration says work to begin soon on 250-foot D.C. arch memorial project (opens WCTI in a new tab)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in a Dallas County court case to ensure life-saving medical treatment for baby Gabriel, diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The surrogate mother, McKenna West, traveled from Alaska to Texas after the intended parents sought to abort the pregnancy due to the defect.
WCTI reported it asTexas AG seeks court's protection for surrogate, unborn baby with heart defect (opens WCTI 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Sinclair Broadcast GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- wcti12.com
- Seen publishing on
- wcti12.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
9 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 WCTI ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than WCTI’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 17 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 27 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 26 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WCTI, 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 WCTI 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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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.