Barbara Walters, first among female TV journalists, dead at 93

Jan 01, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"Walters interviewed every sitting U.S. president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama."
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6% Conservative
"Walters interviewed every sitting U.S. president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama."
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6% Conservative
"She caught up with Donald Trump in 2015, in the early months of The Apprentice star's successful White House run; the interview aired as part of Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2015, her final interview special."
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-2% Liberal
"In her 2008 memoir, Audition, she confessed to affairs with U.S. senators Edward Brooke and John Warner, the latter of whom she would interview alongside his then-wife, Elizabeth Taylor."
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-6% Liberal
"In her 2008 memoir, Audition, she confessed to affairs with U.S. senators Edward Brooke and John Warner, the latter of whom she would interview alongside his then-wife, Elizabeth Taylor."
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-6% Liberal
"It was rare for Walters to lose a big get -- it was she who got former White House intern Monica Lewinsky to do a sit-down at the height of the President Bill Clinton sex scandal; Walters herself called the Lewinsky interview probably her most famous (and, indeed, it was her most-watched, drawing nearly 50 million viewers in 1999)."
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