Is WQOW biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WQOW in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WQOW biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WQOW in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WQOW left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WQOW in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WQOW reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WQOW 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 WQOW has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WQOW’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration is preparing an overhaul of Head Start that would remove federal quality standards for the preschool programme serving low-income children. Reports attribute the plan to anonymous sources and say it would allow states to set their own rules.
WQOW reported it asTrump officials say they’re strengthening Head Start with proposed rule. Critics say they’ll gut it (opens WQOW in a new tab)
The US Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director on 5 August 2026, ending a nearly year-long vacancy. Schwartz, the agency’s 22nd director, takes over an agency that has lost over a quarter of its workforce since 2025 and faced repeated leadership changes under the Trump administration.
WQOW reported it asDr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC’s first official director in a year (opens WQOW in a new tab)
Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have captured the most detailed images yet of the Sun’s visible surface, showing vortex-like plasma patterns ranging from 19 to 170 kilometres in diameter. The findings, published in Nature, could improve understanding of coronal mass ejections and space weather.
WQOW reported it asNew images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet (opens WQOW in a new tab)
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
WQOW reported it asAI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident (opens WQOW in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
WQOW reported it asAI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident (opens WQOW in a new tab)
A US appeals court ruled the Trump administration improperly terminated a $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, siding with nonprofits selected to distribute clean energy grants. The decision was paused to allow the EPA to appeal to the Supreme Court, leaving funds frozen for now.
WQOW reported it asDivided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds (opens WQOW in a new tab)
Megyn Kelly said CNN anchor Dana Bash was 'out of her league' during her interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr on 2 August. Kelly’s remarks followed a heated exchange on pandemic lockdowns, Fauci’s role, and Trump’s accountability. Only left-rated outlets covered the story.
WQOW reported it asWhat we’ve learned about Covid-19 since the pandemic (opens WQOW 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
- Quincy MediaIndependentdirect owner
- 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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
7 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. WQOW is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WQOW: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WQOW, 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.
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.