WSMV Nashville media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSMV Nashville in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WSMV Nashville biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSMV Nashville in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WSMV Nashville left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WSMV Nashville in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WSMV Nashville reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WSMV Nashville are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WSMV Nashville has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WSMV Nashville’s own report linked underneath.
Two University of Mississippi students, Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, died on September 21. Kratom was discovered in a package during the investigation into their deaths, though its connection remains unclear. Causes of death are unconfirmed.
WSMV Nashville reported it asStudent newspaper confirms identities in deaths of Ole Miss students (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
Converse has removed a social media advertisement featuring K-pop singer Karina after critics said the imagery evoked racist symbols, including those associated with the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. The company issued an apology, stating they understood why the image was upsetting and had made a mistake.
WSMV Nashville reported it asConverse apologizes for ‘deeply upsetting’ sneaker ad after imagery was compared to KKK, lynching (opens WSMV Nashville 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.
WSMV Nashville reported it asICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan man, AP source says (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
A United Nations report published on September 2, 2026, states that global temperatures are likely to exceed the 1.5°C warming threshold within a few years. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal to limit damage.
WSMV Nashville reported it asGlobal warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
Thousands of protesters are expected on the National Mall for the "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The event follows a Supreme Court decision that reinterpreted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
WSMV Nashville reported it asThousands rally on National Mall for voting rights (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
Tennessee's governor has proposed renaming Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton, days after her death. The proposal faces a policy hurdle regarding naming rights for recently deceased individuals and will be discussed by the airport authority on September 17.
WSMV Nashville reported it asGov. Bill Lee, BNA announce plan to name Nashville airport in honor of Dolly Parton (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
The Trump administration is implementing new regulations that extend beyond border enforcement, targeting immigrants through measures like limiting tax credit refunds and requiring English proficiency for truck drivers.
WSMV Nashville reported it asICE arrested more people in July than any other month in Trump’s second term (opens WSMV Nashville in a new tab)
Rodney Mims Cook Jr, who oversees the expansion of the White House ballroom, met Kremlin officials including Anton Kobyakov during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2026. The U.S. State Department said it was unaware of the delegation, while the White House stated it continues to seek a constructive role in peace talks.
WSMV Nashville reported it asTrump defends White House ballroom, pledges donor list (opens WSMV Nashville 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.
WSMV Nashville reported it asConcerns grow over USS Abraham Lincoln crew conditions (opens WSMV Nashville 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Meredith CorporationMedia 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 13 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. WSMV Nashville 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 WSMV Nashville: its report arrived a median of 12 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 28 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 28 September 2026. Ratings pulled 12 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WSMV Nashville, 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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