Is WSLS biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSLS in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WSLS biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSLS in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WSLS left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSLS in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WSLS reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WSLS 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 WSLS has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WSLS’s own report linked underneath.
Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, is running against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in a race that could help determine Senate control. Democrats need four new seats, and Colom’s campaign is drawing attention as a potential wildcard in a state long considered safe for Republicans.
WSLS reported it asMississippi Senate race highlights shifting map as Democrats and Republicans battle for majority (opens WSLS in a new tab)
Two haboob dust storms struck the Phoenix area within three days in early August 2026, both classified as Category 5 events. Researchers at Arizona State University said the storms were unprecedented in frequency and intensity, with wind speeds of 50 mph and visibility reduced to half a mile.
WSLS reported it asUnusually intense haboob dust storms strike Phoenix twice this week (opens WSLS in a new tab)
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
WSLS reported it asEuropean soccer leagues add to pressure on FIFA president Gianni Infantino amid 'crisis' meeting (opens WSLS in a new tab)
John McGuire secured the Republican nomination for Virginia's 5th Congressional District after receiving an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. Two other GOP primaries in Virginia and Kansas were also decided, but only McGuire's race was widely reported by left- and centre-rated outlets.
WSLS reported it asIncumbent U.S. Rep. John McGuire projected to win Republican primary for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District (opens WSLS 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
- Graham Media Groupunknowndirect owner
- Graham HoldingsMedia Conglomerateparent group
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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
4 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. WSLS is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WSLS: its report arrived a median of 24 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.
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