Outlet track record
CBS2 Iowa
U.S. center-right (corporate-owned local TV news; owner leans conservative, local newsroom content mostly straight news)
CBS2 Iowa is the CBS affiliate in Cedar Rapids, owned by Sinclair, a large publicly traded broadcaster whose corporate leadership has a conservative reputation. Its local newscasts focus mainly on eastern Iowa news, weather and sports. I found no documented pattern of strongly supportive or critical coverage of the second Trump administration, though Sinclair-wide content has drawn criticism from the left.
Owned bySinclair, Inc. (formerly Sinclair Broadcast Group), a publicly traded U.S. broadcaster controlled by the family of founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Sinclair owns KGAN and operates sister station KFXA (Fox 28), which it filed in 2025 to buy outright.
LeaningU.S. center-right (corporate-owned local TV news; owner leans conservative, local newsroom content mostly straight news)
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun