WFLA-TV media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLA-TV in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WFLA-TV biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLA-TV in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WFLA-TV left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WFLA-TV in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WFLA-TV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WFLA-TV 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 WFLA-TV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WFLA-TV’s own report linked underneath.
A civilian breached the perimeter of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Saturday afternoon, leading to a confrontation with security officers. Both the civilian and an officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the incident.
WFLA-TV reported it as'Civilian assailant' detained after breaching MacDill perimeter, officials say (opens WFLA-TV in a new tab)
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.
WFLA-TV reported it asAs diesel prices rise, other goods are too, Tampa economist says (opens WFLA-TV in a new tab)
A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found that nearly 80 immigrant detainees at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility were held in small metal enclosures for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours. The report described the enclosures as 'highly unconventional' and a risk to detainee health and safety.
WFLA-TV reported it asDHS report: Alligator Alcatraz detainees were kept in phone booth-sized outdoor cages (opens WFLA-TV in a new tab)
Canada has announced retaliatory tariffs on specific US goods, marking a new phase in the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. The measures were announced on Tuesday.
WFLA-TV reported it asToilet paper costs could double after Canada strikes back with retaliatory tariffs (opens WFLA-TV 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
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 22 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WFLA-TV is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WFLA-TV: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 October 2026. Ratings pulled 21 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WFLA-TV, 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.
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 WFLA-TV 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.
Report something wrong on this page
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.