In ranking the reliability of the news stations, the biggest factor is not left vs. right — it’s news vs. commentary:
***Broadcast networks (ABC/CBS/NBC)
→ far more factual, fewer opinion hosts.
***Cable news networks (CNN/MSNBC/FOX)
→ daytime is okay; evenings are basically political entertainment.
***PBS
→ the closest thing to old-school Walter Cronkite–style journalism left on TV.
***Far-right networks (OANN/Newsmax/The Blaze)
→ fact-checkers routinely find high error rates.
Note: The reliability ranking chart for news stations was compiled by ChatGPT with this caveat:
“…there is no universally accepted ‘truth meter’ for TV news. What I can give you is a composite view based on the consensus of long-term media-bias analyses (like Ad Fontes Media, Pew, AllSides, academic studies, and historical fact-checking patterns). It’s not perfect, but it reflects how the major outlets tend to behave.”