CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the United States broadcaster CBS, with a long history in American broadcast journalism. It provides television and online coverage of national and international news, politics, and current affairs for a wide audience.
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Is CBS News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists CBS News as Center within the United States' media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In the United States, The New York Times and CNN are listed as Left-leaning, while Fox News is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open CBS News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read CBS News beside another title from the United States and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Broadcast newsrooms build around what can be shown and who can be booked, so CBS News's online front page tends to track its on-air running order — watch which stories carry video and which are text-only. Because CBS News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning the United States title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
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