BBC cites "urgent need to report from inside Russia" as journalists return

Mar 09, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -34% Moderately Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Moderately Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"The BBC changed its stance from Friday, when Director General Tim Davie said he was not prepared to expose staff to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs."
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-34% Liberal
"Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., reminded his colleagues of the origins of the nation's postal service as a way to unify the young country, and of its importance today to deliver cards, letters and a growing list of goods to American households."
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18% Conservative
"Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency's board of directors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as the new postmaster general."
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10% Conservative
"The legislation approved by Congress is supported by Biden, the Postal Service, postal worker unions and others."
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10% Conservative
"WASHINGTON -- Congress on Tuesday passed legislation that would shore up the U.S. Postal Service and ensure six-day-a-week mail delivery, sending the bill to President Biden to sign into law."
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8% Conservative
"On Tuesday, the Senate sent it to Biden's desk on a 79-19 vote."
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0% Conservative
"We need to save our Postal Service, said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a chief architect of the bill."
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-2% Liberal
"The post office usually delivers for us, but today we're going to deliver for them, said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.Congress mustered rare bipartisan support for the Postal Service package, dropping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service and ensure its future operations."
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-10% Liberal
"At the time, President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to starve the Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election."
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-18% Liberal
"Republican Sen. Jerry Moran said the Postal Service has been in a death spiral that is particularly hard on rural Americans, including in his state of Kansas, as post offices shuttered and services were cut."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Portman said the bill is not a bailout, and no new funding is going to the agency."
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-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

33% : The BBC changed its stance from Friday, when Director General Tim Davie said he was not prepared to expose staff "to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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