WOWT media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WOWT in the centre. We have seen it on 27 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WOWT biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WOWT in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WOWT left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WOWT in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WOWT reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WOWT 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 WOWT has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WOWT’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
WOWT reported it asTrump responds as voters deliver rebuke by flipping key GOP-held Senate seats (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
WOWT reported it asTrump responds as voters deliver rebuke by flipping key GOP-held Senate seats (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Cory Booker has won re-election to the U.S. Senate representing New Jersey, defeating Republican candidate Justin Murphy. This victory marks Booker's third full term in the Senate.
WOWT reported it asElection Day 2026: Voters in Nebraska & Iowa head to the polls (opens WOWT in a new tab)
The Trump administration's online accounts shared images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween background around a Black man accused of food assistance fraud. The posts have drawn criticism for being inflammatory, coinciding with a government campaign on immigration enforcement.
WOWT reported it asTrump administration’s social media posts ahead of elections criticized for being inflammatory (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Brooke Rollins posted a Halloween‑themed image on X depicting a Black man as a “SNAP Fraudster” shortly before the 2026 midterm elections. Critics called the post racist, while federal prosecutors charged Mercedes Reshard New, known as “Shawty Dred,” with fraud totalling more than $4 million.
WOWT reported it asTrump administration’s social media posts ahead of elections criticized for being inflammatory (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Police responded to a youth soccer game in Florida after a league director called 911. The director stated the call was due to disruptive parents, while the child's mother claims the police were called because her son was too talented.
WOWT reported it asBodycam video shows moments after parents say cops were called on 3-year-old for being ‘too good’ at soccer (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Rapper Nicki Minaj announced her continued support for Donald Trump at a Republican rally in Michigan. She stated she would back him if he runs for president again, appearing alongside him at the event.
WOWT reported it asTrump says Nicki Minaj has ‘one hell of a beautiful a**’ that is ‘hard to miss’ during campaign rally (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Mississippi's attorney general has determined that a police officer was justified in using deadly force in the June shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. The shooting occurred during a response to a shoplifting call at a local Walmart.
WOWT reported it asOfficer’s use of force was justified in shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart, AG says (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Abu Falah on October 16, 2026. During the assault, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was beaten and had her camera and phone taken. Both Israeli military and police have opened investigations into the incident.
WOWT reported it asAmerican journalist injured in settler attack in Israeli-occupied West Bank (opens WOWT in a new tab)
The Justice Department has threatened California with legal action over concerns that noncitizens may have received mail ballots for upcoming midterm elections. The state has been given 48 hours to review voter rolls and segregate ballots of unverified individuals.
WOWT reported it asDOJ threatens California with legal action over alleged noncitizens on voter rolls (opens WOWT in a new tab)
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that large‑scale oil, gas and mineral exploration will start soon in Greenland, claiming the island holds more readily available oil than almost any other country and is strategically unparalleled for US and European defence. A September security deal permits new US bases and a missile‑defence system, and former envoy Jeff Landry was named to push Greenland’s integration into the United States.
WOWT reported it asTrump says ‘massive’ oil, gas and mineral exploration in ‘beautiful’ Greenland is set to begin (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
WOWT reported it asSix Flags closes 9 rides after roller coaster rider reportedly falls to his death in Georgia (opens WOWT in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is visiting Grand Island, Nebraska, for a campaign rally. The visit comes as Nebraska ranchers express anger over the administration's plan to increase foreign beef imports, a policy Senator Pete Ricketts has stated is not helping local ranchers.
WOWT reported it asElection 2026: Trump endorses Nebraska GOP candidates at rally in Grand Island (opens WOWT in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is visiting Grand Island, Nebraska, for a campaign rally. The visit comes as Nebraska ranchers express anger over the administration's plan to increase foreign beef imports, a policy Senator Pete Ricketts has stated is not helping local ranchers.
WOWT reported it asPresident Trump addresses GOP midterm rally in Grand Island (opens WOWT in a new tab)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell University gang rape investigation. The governor removed the local district attorney from the case, citing a lack of trust. Allegations from 2024 have resurfaced, contributing to palpable tension on campus.
WOWT reported it asNew York’s governor says Cornell rape accuser was ‘failed’ by people obligated to protect her (opens WOWT in a new tab)
A shooting near Omaha's Burke High School on Wednesday morning resulted in one person sustaining non-life-threatening injuries. Police responded, secured the school temporarily, and have since detained a suspect and recovered a firearm.
WOWT reported it as1 injured in shooting near Omaha Burke High School (opens WOWT 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.
WOWT reported it as5 major news networks, including Fox, agree to suspend pooled coverage of Trump after he banned CNN (opens WOWT 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.
WOWT reported it asNewly unveiled Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA headquarters (opens WOWT in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has proposed giving $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate in the upcoming midterms. The plan is projected to cost $1.2 trillion and has raised concerns about inflation.
WOWT reported it asTrump wants to send Americans money. Congress and economists don’t seem thrilled with the idea (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen's family business, Pillen Family Farms, has allegedly employed undocumented workers for over a decade. This comes as Pillen has publicly supported stricter immigration policies and President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
WOWT reported it asGov. Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers. (opens WOWT 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Gray TelevisionMedia 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
- 27
- Reports listed
- 28
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
28 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. WOWT is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 27 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WOWT: its report arrived a median of 17 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 11 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
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Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WOWT, 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.
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