Long Island Media Bias Scorecard · one of 4 outlets scored
TBR News Media Media Bias & Reporting Quality
TBR News Media shows a near-zero net lean on party politics, at a partisan lean of -0.1. On worldview it shows a near-zero net lean, at an ideological lean of -0.2. The panel found no partisan lean at all in 73 of its 79 scored articles.
TBR News Media is one of 4 outlets on the Long Island Media Bias Scorecard. A panel of three AI models, from three different companies, scored those 79 articles under rubric v0.4.0, with every outlet name and byline removed. Data as of . The numbers move as the sample grows.
What the results mean#
- Below the board median on sourcing (1.9 against 2.2), source independence (0.9 against 1.5), analysis labeling (3.7 against 3.8), language neutrality (3.6 against 3.7).
- Institutional posture reads strongly toward deference (net -1.5, across 64 articles).
- Establishment-populist framing leans toward establishment (net -0.8, across 50 articles).
- Conservation-development framing leans toward conservation (net -0.7, across 11 articles).
These describe the sampled articles, not every story TBR News Media publishes. Labels such as near-zero net lean are cutoffs on the number beside them, not statistical tests.
Its fingerprint#
Five lean axes, on the same -3 to +3 scale every outlet is drawn on. The marker is the net lean. The pale band spans the average swing per article in both directions.
Where it sits among Long Island's outlets#
~10 local articles/day · 79 scored
How to read this: left and right is ideological tilt. This market's outlets sit close together, so the map shows lean from -1 to +1 of the full -3 to +3 scale. Zoomed in, small gaps look large: each outlet's lean is averaged over 45 to 95 scored articles, so a gap of a few tenths may not hold as more are scored. Up is source independence, meaning official claims are tested rather than passed along. Bubble size is local articles per day: publishing volume, not audience reach. Dashed outlines mark the known-lean control and the out-of-market reference. The moose marks our own newsroom. Hover or tap any bubble to spotlight it and see its exact numbers. Tap again or click away to release it.
Its scores beside the board#
| Dimension | TBR News Media | Board median |
|---|---|---|
| Partisan lean (-3 Democratic to +3 Republican) | -0.1 (near-zero net lean) | -0.2 (near-zero net lean) |
| Partisan lean strength (0-3, direction ignored) | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Articles with no partisan lean detected | 73 of 79 | - |
| Ideological tilt (-3 progressive to +3 conservative) | -0.2 net, 0.4 strength (n=45) | -0.2 net, 0.5 strength |
| Institutional posture (-3 deference to +3 skepticism) | -1.5 net, 1.5 strength (n=64) | -1 net, 1.2 strength |
| Establishment-populist framing (-3 establishment to +3 populist) | -0.8 net, 0.9 strength (n=50) | -0.6 net, 0.8 strength |
| Conservation-development framing (-3 conservation to +3 development) | -0.7 net, 0.8 strength (n=11) | 0 net, 0.8 strength |
| Evidence fairness (0-4) | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Sourcing (0-4) | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| Source independence (0-4) | 0.9 | 1.5 |
| Analysis labeling (0-4) | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Language neutrality (0-4) | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| Articles sampled | 79 | - |
Same story, side by side#
No matched same-story comparison for TBR News Media in this dataset yet.
Coverage and volume#
TBR News Media publishes about 10 local stories a day. Of 116 articles read for places, 100 are set in a Long Island community, 1 is statewide, 1 is about places outside Long Island and 14 name no place. Most covered: Stony Brook (25), Suffolk County (9), Huntington (9), Port Jefferson (7), Smithtown (6), Mount Sinai (5).
Machine access#
This shows how TBR News Media's site answers software, not whether a person can read it. These are facts about how TBR News Media publishes, not scores. Blocking AI crawlers is a legitimate choice. When our crawler could not complete a check, the table says why.
| Paywall | RSS | Full-text RSS | AI crawlers blocked | Readable without JS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| none | unreachable from our collection point (HTTP 403) | no | 10 | yes |
Why it is on the board#
The North Shore of Suffolk County's group of weekly newspapers. Added Oct. 26, 2026.
Articles read through a web browser since , on a volunteer's home connection, because our crawler is refused. Its site refused our crawler on four of five days, Oct. 26 to 30, 2026. Last read .
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How this is measured#
Three models from three vendors score each article against a published rubric, with outlet names and bylines removed first. An outlet's number is the mean of its per-article panel medians. Lean measures direction only, never quality. The full method, its validation checks and every outlet's numbers are on the Long Island Media Bias Scorecard. The data is free to reuse with credit, under CC BY 4.0.