Mississippi Public Broadcasting – Bias and Credibility

These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias.  They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes.  These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.

• Overall, we rate Mississippi Public Broadcasting as Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial perspectives that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER (-3.0)
Factual Reporting: HIGH (0.5)
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

History

Mississippi Public Broadcasting is a website that publishes news and information from its NPR and PBS TV Stations. Its TV stations include: WMAB-TV, WMAE-TV, WMAH-TV, WMAO-TV, WMAU-TV, WMAV-TV, WMAW-TV, WMPN-TV. Its NPR radio stations include: WMAB-FM, WMAE-FM, WMAH-FM, WMAO-FM, WMAU-FM, WMAV-FM, WMAW-FM, WMPN-FM. Mississippi Public Broadcasting is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Funded by / Ownership

Mississippi Public Broadcasting is owned and broadcast by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television. Revenue is derived through institutional grants, individual contributions, and fees paid by users of the Public Radio Satellite System. NPR stations receive less than 1% of their funding from the federal government.

Analysis / Bias

In review, the Mississippi Public Broadcasting website reports news and radio/TV programming with a slight left-leaning bias. The website’s news is derived from NPR and often utilizes minimally loaded language, such as this: Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University of Mississippi student. This story is fact-based and, like all others reviewed, relies on credible sources of information. The website also publishes content from American Public Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In general, story selection tends to lean slightly left, as does editorial content, such as this How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets. Finally, news reporting is fact-based and leans left from an editorial perspective.

Failed Fact Checks

• None in the Last 5 years

Overall, we rate Mississippi Public Broadcasting as Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial perspectives that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record. (D. Van Zandt 12/12/2024)

Source: https://www.mpbonline.org/