Outlet track record
Fox17 (Scripps affiliate)
U.S. center (local Scripps-owned Fox affiliate)
WXMI Fox17 is a local Fox network affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan, owned by the E.W. Scripps Company since 2019. Its local newsroom covers West Michigan with mainstream regional journalism and is editorially distinct from the national Fox News cable channel, which Scripps does not own. Media-bias researchers rate Scripps-owned news operations as center to left-center, and the station's local coverage of the Trump administration has been largely straightforward without a strong partisan tilt.
Owned byE.W. Scripps Company (Cincinnati, Ohio); Sinclair Broadcast Group has been pursuing an unsolicited acquisition of Scripps since late 2025, but no deal had closed as of July 2026
LeaningU.S. center (local Scripps-owned Fox affiliate)
On the administrationmostly neutral
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun