WOWT media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WOWT in the centre. We have seen it on 13 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.
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)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
WOWT reported it asICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan man, AP source says (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Donald Trump has blamed President Joe Biden for the deaths of 13 US service members at Abbey Gate in 2021. Trump made the remarks on the fifth anniversary of the attack, which occurred during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The ISIS-K terrorist responsible was identified.
WOWT reported it asFamily and friends remember Cpl. Daegan Page 5 years after his death in Kabul attack (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Three Marines have received upgraded valor awards for their actions following the 2021 Abbey Gate attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presided over the ceremony, honouring the Marines' heroism amidst the chaos that killed 13 U.S. service members.
WOWT reported it asFamily and friends remember Cpl. Daegan Page 5 years after his death in Kabul attack (opens WOWT in a new tab)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved daraxonrasib, branded as Rasonque, for metastatic pancreatic cancer. In trials, patients taking the drug lived a median of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months on chemotherapy.
WOWT reported it asFDA approves pancreatic cancer drug taken by Ben Sasse in clinical trials, made available in Omaha (opens WOWT 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.
WOWT reported it asCanada will impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods beginning Sept. 8 (opens WOWT in a new tab)
The Pentagon's casualty database shows 757 US service members wounded and 18 killed in the Iran conflict. The war began on February 28 with US and Israeli strikes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the direct cost of the war reached $37.5 billion.
WOWT reported it asMore than 750 US troops have been wounded during operations against Iran, Pentagon data shows (opens WOWT in a new tab)
A Missouri judge issued an arrest warrant for Jill Stein after she and her attorney failed to appear at a court hearing on 20 August 2026. The warrant was later dropped when her attorney appeared in court. Stein faces misdemeanour charges of trespassing and assault from an April 2024 protest at Washington University in St. Louis.
WOWT reported it asArrest warrant issued for 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein (opens WOWT 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.
WOWT reported it as911 dispatch audio reveals more details about actress Hayden Panettiere’s death (opens WOWT in a new tab)
Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine detained in Russia since 2022, was released on 11 August 2026 after reports of severe abuse and deteriorating health. U.S. and Russian officials said the move was not part of a prisoner exchange, and Gilman is now receiving medical care in Texas.
WOWT reported it asFormer US Marine held in Russia for more than 4 years on disputed charges has been released (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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 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.
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 13 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 9 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 27 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 26 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
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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