WMBF News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WMBF News in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WMBF News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WMBF News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WMBF News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WMBF News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WMBF News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WMBF News 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 WMBF News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WMBF News’s own report linked underneath.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent representatives home early for their pre-election recess. This move postpones a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which had been initiated by Rep. Thomas Massie over Hegseth's actions in Iran and Venezuela.
WMBF News reported it asHouse Speaker Johnson sends Congress home early, delaying Hegseth impeachment vote (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
Two protesters were arrested outside the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas. Mounted police and officers in riot gear were deployed as demonstrators marched near the venue. Organisers estimated up to 10,000 people would attend separate rallies.
WMBF News reported it asTexas politics takes center stage at 2026 RNC Convention (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Venezuela granting the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the country's oil reserves. Trump described the deal as the largest in world history, predicting it would increase US reserves and reduce fuel prices.
WMBF News reported it asTrump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
Disney’s ABC filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on 18 August 2026, alleging the agency is retaliating against the network for its editorial decisions. The suit targets early licence-renewal orders for eight stations and an investigation into the talk show 'The View'.
WMBF News reported it asDisney sues FCC over challenge to broadcast licenses, claims retaliation over ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
WMBF News reported it asCoroner: Autopsy completed for actress Hayden Panettiere; cause of death pending (opens WMBF News 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.
WMBF News reported it asConcern grows over conditions aboard USS Lincoln, with reports of crew members trying to jump overboard (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
WMBF News reported it asSenate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Tuesday on advancing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination after Republican senators secured written assurances that a $1.8 billion fund tied to the Trump-IRS settlement would not proceed. Democrats argue the guarantees fall short of permanent protections.
WMBF News reported it asSenate panel expected to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after deal with GOP holdouts (opens WMBF News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
WMBF News reported it asTrump signs executive order creating commission to assist with military family policies (opens WMBF News 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.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
- Media Bias/Fact Checkcenter
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
- Ad Fontes MediaveryHighCheck it
- Media Bias/Fact Checkhigh
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for WMBF News.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- wmbfnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- wmbfnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 4 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WMBF News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WMBF News: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WMBF News, 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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