WHAM media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give WHAM 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 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WHAM biased?
The rating organisations do not give WHAM 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 WHAM left or right?
The rating organisations do not give WHAM 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 WHAM reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WHAM are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WHAM has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WHAM’s own report linked underneath.
Following his removal from Ed Sheeran's tour for pro-Palestinian statements, Macklemore has announced a new 'Free Palestine Tour'. The shows will take place in Dublin, Paris, and London, with all proceeds donated to charities supporting Palestinians.
WHAM reported it asMacklemore announces Free Palestine Tour after dropped from Ed Sheeran tour (opens WHAM in a new tab)
President Donald Trump vetoed CNN, Politico, and MS NOW, impacting audiovisual coverage of his UN trip. In response, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox halted their joint television coverage of Trump, citing solidarity with the banned outlets.
WHAM reported it asTV networks refuse White House pool coverage after CNN barred from assignment (opens WHAM in a new tab)
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Russia launched over 2,000 attack drones, 1,700 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles against Ukraine in the past week. The attacks targeted civilian and critical infrastructure across multiple regions, including a drone strike on a monastery that killed a priest.
WHAM reported it asUkraine hits Moscow oil refinery in massive drone and missile attack (opens WHAM in a new tab)
Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on Moscow, targeting oil refineries and logistics facilities. The assault occurred on the final day of Russia's parliamentary elections, with reports differing on the number of drones used and casualties.
WHAM reported it asUkraine hits Moscow oil refinery in massive drone and missile attack (opens WHAM in a new tab)
Global 15-year-old students have recorded their weakest performance in reading, mathematics, and science since testing began 25 years ago, according to the OECD's PISA 2025 results. Average scores across OECD countries have fallen significantly, with a notable increase in 'hasty readers' and complex challenges presented by AI use.
WHAM reported it asReading scores drop among U.S. teens, new assessment finds (opens WHAM in a new tab)
US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The talks occurred as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a potential ceasefire, while Russian missiles struck airports near Kyiv.
WHAM reported it asUS envoys meet with Putin in new push to end Ukraine war (opens WHAM in a new tab)
Alex Justin Miller, 26, of Columbus, Ohio, has been arrested and charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure. He is accused of sending emails containing threats to kill President Donald Trump and behead Florida Congressman Randy Fine.
WHAM reported it as'DEATH TO DONALD TRUMP!' Man accused of threatening to kill Trump, behead lawmaker: DOJ (opens WHAM 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.
WHAM reported it asEx-deputy convicted of fatally shooting Sonya Massey dies in prison (opens WHAM in a new tab)
The United States announced it would impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian products, effective early Saturday. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated Canada declined to finalize a trade deal on previously agreed terms, leading to the tariffs.
WHAM reported it asCanada to impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods as trade negotiations collapse (opens WHAM in a new tab)
The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court on 17 August 2026 to reinstate human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, after a judge dismissed them in May. The judge ruled the prosecution was selective and vindictive, citing statements by then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Abrego Garcia’s defence calls the case politically motivated.
WHAM reported it asFederal prosecutors seek to revive Abrego Garcia human smuggling case (opens WHAM in a new tab)
Donald Trump said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz as US territory, asserting that Iran had been heavily defeated in the war and that no vessel could transit the waterway without American approval. Outlets disagreed on whether his tone was serious or joking.
WHAM reported it asTrump says he'll declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory when Iran war ends (opens WHAM 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.
WHAM reported it asUSS Lincoln sailors attempt to jump overboard amid record deployment (opens WHAM in a new tab)
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he would charge WNBA players with assault if a foul like the one on Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham occurred in Florida. The threat followed a Flagrant 2 foul by Chicago Sky’s DiJonai Carrington, who was ejected and later claimed the call was due to ‘white privilege’.
WHAM reported it asFlorida AG says he'd have charged WNBA's Carrington with 'assault' over Cunningham foul (opens WHAM 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
- Deerfield MediaIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
- Official site
- 13wham.com
- Seen publishing on
- 13wham.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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 10 August 2026
13 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 5 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and WHAM ran the story anyway.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WHAM: its report arrived a median of 14 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 24 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 24 September 2026. Ratings pulled 10 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WHAM, 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 WHAM 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.