Outlet track record
Associated Press (via KOIN/ClickOnDetroit)
U.S. center to center-left
The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative owned collectively by its member news organizations, with no single corporate or government owner. Independent media analysts place it near the center of the political spectrum, with a slight leftward lean in some editorial choices and fact-checking patterns. Its relationship with the Trump administration has been openly adversarial: the White House barred AP reporters from press pool events in early 2025 over AP's refusal to adopt the official term 'Gulf of America,' and AP filed a First Amendment lawsuit that remained unresolved as of mid-2026.
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LeaningU.S. center to center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun