WKRC media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give WKRC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WKRC biased?
The rating organisations do not give WKRC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 WKRC left or right?
The rating organisations do not give WKRC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WKRC reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WKRC 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 WKRC has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WKRC’s own report linked underneath.
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
WKRC reported it asAfter June fall and hospitalization, Sen. Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate (opens WKRC in a new tab)
A newly unveiled statue of Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters was defaced with red paint. The vandalism occurred days after the statue's unveiling and coincided with the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
WKRC reported it asRecently unveiled Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA HQ (opens WKRC in a new tab)
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has revised past statements regarding gender and transgender athletes. He now states he opposes transgender girls competing in sports if it compromises safety or fairness, a shift from his previous stances.
WKRC reported it asTalarico backtracks controversial gender comments, pushes for Supreme Court overhaul (opens WKRC 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.
WKRC reported it asDOJ takes down Chinese scam network targeting 'every American with a retirement account' (opens WKRC in a new tab)
The Trump administration has expressed "profound concern" over Ford Motor's business ties with Chinese companies, citing potential risks to U.S. automotive manufacturing and supply chains. Ford defended its position as the top U.S. automaker and stated the letter contained factual errors.
WKRC reported it asFeds slam Ford over alleged ties to Chinese tech, manufacturing (opens WKRC in a new tab)
Operation Rotten Apple, a federal immigration enforcement initiative, resulted in the detention of over 2,100 migrants in New York. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the operation's findings, criticizing state and city politicians for sanctuary policies.
WKRC reported it asDHS crackdown on undocumented migrants breaks records for arrests and deportations (opens WKRC in a new tab)
Houston police officers entered an Uber vehicle to pursue a suspect who had fled on foot. The suspect had allegedly threatened to shoot a woman and her child. The Uber driver, Anthony Baines, was on his way to pick up a rider when the incident occurred. The suspect was not apprehended.
WKRC reported it asUber driver helps police chase suspect after officers jump into his car (opens WKRC in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
WKRC reported it asFormer NBA player Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA arena as transgender debate escalates (opens WKRC 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.
WKRC reported it asCanada to impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods as trade negotiations collapse (opens WKRC in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance announced that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a "very discreet plan" to reduce the U.S. national debt, which recently surpassed $40 trillion. Vance stated the plan aims to make the economy grow faster than the debt.
WKRC reported it asVance says Bessent has 'very discreet plan' to reduce $40 trillion national debt (opens WKRC in a new tab)
An Ohio couple faces felony charges after allegedly forcing their way into a cruise ship cabin and assaulting three people, including a 9-year-old child. The incident followed a noise complaint aboard a ship docked in Florida, with both suspects reportedly drinking before the altercation.
WKRC reported it asDrunk couple arrested after cruise ship brawl involving 9-year-old: sheriff (opens WKRC in a new tab)
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled after a child refused to sit down and fasten their seatbelt, forcing the aircraft to return to the terminal. The delay caused the flight to miss the airport’s 12:30 a.m. runway closure, leaving passengers rebooked for the following day.
WKRC reported it asFlight canceled after child stands on seat, refuses to put on seat belt (opens WKRC in a new tab)
A man accused of killing Elisabeth Jane Ross and concealing her body in a suitcase in Athens is due in court on Wednesday. The 38-year-old Scottish woman was found in an abandoned building on 18 July. All nine reports confirm the court appearance but differ on details of the discovery.
WKRC reported it asPolice hunt for 'heavily tattooed' suspect after woman's body allegedly found in suitcase (opens WKRC 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
- Sinclair Broadcast GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
- Official site
- local12.com
- Seen publishing on
- local12.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
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
12 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. WKRC is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than WKRC’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 24 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WKRC, 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 WKRC 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.