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News sources we watch

Everything this site can say about the news starts with what it reads. This page lists every configured publisher, who rates its bias and on what scale, what we actually observed when we inspected its feed, and whether any capture has run for it. Where something is unsettled it is written down rather than rounded off.

An outlet rating is not a truth rating. The labels below describe a publisher's overall lean as an outside agency assessed the publisher. They say nothing about whether any particular article is accurate, and nothing on this site scores a story with them.

Positions are not comparable between agencies. The publishers below are assessed by agencies using different scales. Each strip is drawn on its own agency's scale, so a marker further left than another source's marker is a display position, not a measured distance between the two.

The colors never carry meaning on their own. Left of center is drawn to the left and tinted blue, right of center to the right and tinted red. Every strip is repeated in words next to it, naming the agency, its category, the score and the scale.

Capture status

5 sources configured. 5 have no completed capture on record.

Configuration and health read from the API at September 13, 2026 at 11:40 UTC. This page reads; it never starts, stops or changes a capture.

  1. World Socialist Web Site

    wsws.org

    Never run

    Outlet rating

    Left as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check

    Media Bias/Fact Check rates World Socialist Web Site "Left". Score −8.2 on its scale from −10 (left) to 10 (right). Drawn left of center.

    Agency last updated
    August 31, 2025
    We checked the rating
    September 13, 2026

    Read Media Bias/Fact Check's rating of World Socialist Web Site

    Finite RSS window; summaries are not full text. Bias is an attributed outlet rating, not a truth rating for each story.

    Ingest health

    No capture has ever been attempted for this source. Nothing has been collected, so there is nothing to be stale.

    Last completed capture
    None on record. The API reports no completed capture for this source.
    Freshness deadline
    Considered stale after 26 hours
    Last run
    No run recorded
    Articles released for analysis
    No captured article versions are on record for this source.
    Analysis release setting
    Not enabled. This is the current activation setting, not a record of what has already been released.
    • An RSS feed holds a finite window, so older articles were never offered to us.
    • Edits and deletions that happened before we observed an article are unknown.
    • Article pages are not uniformly reachable, so some entries keep only their feed summary.
    • Ratings come from different agencies on different scales, which are not calibrated against each other.

    What we observed

    Feed response
    HTTP 200, 100 entries offered
    Sampled article
    HTTP 200, 7,260 characters extracted
    Text observed
    An article body was observed. That is not proof of complete article text.
    Inspected
    2026-09-13T04:57:41.805224+00:00
    Reliability
    Initial inspection and bounded repeat succeeded; no long-term uptime measurement is claimed.
    Feed
    https://www.wsws.org/en/rss.xml
    Publisher
    https://www.wsws.org

  2. CounterPunch

    counterpunch.org

    Never run

    Outlet rating

    Hyper-Partisan Left as rated by Ad Fontes Media

    Ad Fontes Media rates CounterPunch "Hyper-Partisan Left". Score −21.51 on its scale from −42 (left) to 42 (right). Drawn left of center.

    Agency last updated
    Update date unavailable
    We checked the rating
    September 13, 2026

    Read Ad Fontes Media's rating of CounterPunch

    Finite RSS window; summaries are not full text. Bias is an attributed outlet rating, not a truth rating for each story.

    Ingest health

    No capture has ever been attempted for this source. Nothing has been collected, so there is nothing to be stale.

    Last completed capture
    None on record. The API reports no completed capture for this source.
    Freshness deadline
    Considered stale after 26 hours
    Last run
    No run recorded
    Articles released for analysis
    No captured article versions are on record for this source.
    Analysis release setting
    Not enabled. This is the current activation setting, not a record of what has already been released.
    • An RSS feed holds a finite window, so older articles were never offered to us.
    • Edits and deletions that happened before we observed an article are unknown.
    • Article pages are not uniformly reachable, so some entries keep only their feed summary.
    • Ratings come from different agencies on different scales, which are not calibrated against each other.

    What we observed

    Feed response
    HTTP 200, 15 entries offered
    Sampled article
    HTTP 200, 793 characters extracted
    Text observed
    An article body was observed. That is not proof of complete article text.
    Inspected
    2026-09-13T04:57:40.271425+00:00
    Reliability
    Initial inspection and bounded repeat succeeded; no long-term uptime measurement is claimed.
    Feed
    https://www.counterpunch.org/feed/
    Publisher
    https://www.counterpunch.org

  3. BBC News

    bbc.co.uk

    Never run

    Outlet rating

    Center as rated by AllSides

    AllSides rates BBC News "Center". Score −0.8 on its scale from −6 (left) to 6 (right). Drawn left of center.

    Agency last updated
    July 2024
    We checked the rating
    September 13, 2026

    Read AllSides's rating of BBC News

    Finite RSS window; summaries are not full text. Bias is an attributed outlet rating, not a truth rating for each story.

    Ingest health

    No capture has ever been attempted for this source. Nothing has been collected, so there is nothing to be stale.

    Last completed capture
    None on record. The API reports no completed capture for this source.
    Freshness deadline
    Considered stale after 26 hours
    Last run
    No run recorded
    Articles released for analysis
    No captured article versions are on record for this source.
    Analysis release setting
    Not enabled. This is the current activation setting, not a record of what has already been released.
    • An RSS feed holds a finite window, so older articles were never offered to us.
    • Edits and deletions that happened before we observed an article are unknown.
    • Article pages are not uniformly reachable, so some entries keep only their feed summary.
    • Ratings come from different agencies on different scales, which are not calibrated against each other.

    What we observed

    Feed response
    HTTP 200, 61 entries offered
    Sampled article
    HTTP 200, 6,486 characters extracted
    Text observed
    An article body was observed. That is not proof of complete article text.
    Inspected
    2026-09-13T04:57:42.854027+00:00
    Reliability
    Initial inspection and bounded repeat succeeded; no long-term uptime measurement is claimed.
    Feed
    https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/politics/rss.xml
    Publisher
    https://www.bbc.co.uk

  4. Reason

    reason.com

    Never run

    Outlet rating

    Center as rated by AllSides

    AllSides rates Reason "Center". Score 0.1 on its scale from −6 (left) to 6 (right). Drawn on the center tick.

    Agency last updated
    May 2026
    We checked the rating
    September 13, 2026

    Read AllSides's rating of Reason

    Libertarian news and commentary; Center is AllSides' rating, not a claim of neutrality. Finite RSS window; summaries are distinguished from article text.

    Ingest health

    No capture has ever been attempted for this source. Nothing has been collected, so there is nothing to be stale.

    Last completed capture
    None on record. The API reports no completed capture for this source.
    Freshness deadline
    Considered stale after 26 hours
    Last run
    No run recorded
    Articles released for analysis
    No captured article versions are on record for this source.
    Analysis release setting
    Not enabled. This is the current activation setting, not a record of what has already been released.
    • An RSS feed holds a finite window, so older articles were never offered to us.
    • Edits and deletions that happened before we observed an article are unknown.
    • Article pages are not uniformly reachable, so some entries keep only their feed summary.
    • Ratings come from different agencies on different scales, which are not calibrated against each other.

    What we observed

    Feed response
    HTTP 200, 48 entries offered
    Sampled article
    HTTP 200, 2,239 characters extracted
    Text observed
    An article body was observed. That is not proof of complete article text.
    Inspected
    2026-09-13T04:57:43.609620+00:00
    Reliability
    Initial inspection and bounded repeat succeeded; no long-term uptime measurement is claimed.
    Feed
    https://reason.com/feed/
    Publisher
    https://reason.com

  5. Breitbart

    breitbart.com

    Never run

    Outlet rating

    Right as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check

    Media Bias/Fact Check rates Breitbart "Right". Score 8.1 on its scale from −10 (left) to 10 (right). Drawn right of center.

    Agency last updated
    April 9, 2026
    We checked the rating
    September 13, 2026

    Read Media Bias/Fact Check's rating of Breitbart

    Finite RSS window; summaries are not full text. Bias is an attributed outlet rating, not a truth rating for each story.

    Ingest health

    No capture has ever been attempted for this source. Nothing has been collected, so there is nothing to be stale.

    Last completed capture
    None on record. The API reports no completed capture for this source.
    Freshness deadline
    Considered stale after 26 hours
    Last run
    No run recorded
    Articles released for analysis
    No captured article versions are on record for this source.
    Analysis release setting
    Not enabled. This is the current activation setting, not a record of what has already been released.
    • An RSS feed holds a finite window, so older articles were never offered to us.
    • Edits and deletions that happened before we observed an article are unknown.
    • Article pages are not uniformly reachable, so some entries keep only their feed summary.
    • Ratings come from different agencies on different scales, which are not calibrated against each other.

    What we observed

    Feed response
    HTTP 200, 47 entries offered
    Sampled article
    HTTP 200, 6,469 characters extracted
    Text observed
    An article body was observed. That is not proof of complete article text.
    Inspected
    2026-09-13T04:57:44.562214+00:00
    Reliability
    Initial inspection and bounded repeat succeeded; no long-term uptime measurement is claimed.
    Feed
    https://feeds.feedburner.com/breitbart
    Publisher
    https://www.breitbart.com

What this selection does not settle

Reported by the API as selection gaps, and printed here as sent.

  • Five selected outlets supply left-end, two Center-rated sources (BBC and libertarian Reason), and right-end coverage; agency categories remain verbatim.
  • Feed windows are finite and article access can vary; repeated bounded samples do not establish long-term uptime.
  • The Hill and Christian Science Monitor are excluded from this selection: sampled article access was blocked or restricted, despite accessible RSS summaries.
  • Agency score divided by its scale endpoint for display only; agencies are not quantitatively interchangeable.
  • Agency score divided by its scale endpoint for display only; agencies are not quantitatively interchangeable. AllSides rates Reason Center (libertarian); MBFC separately rates it Right-Center (3.8 on -10 to 10, July 2, 2026).