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10% Center
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- Policy Leaning
-2% Center
- Politician Portrayal
94% Negative
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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
Overall Sentiment
24% Positive
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "He served two years as the inaugural dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, located next to the former president's library in downtown Little Rock." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "I didn't sponsor this bill to help Donald Trump or Lee Iacocca, Pryor, who chaired the Finance Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Oversight, said at the time." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "He also attended the inauguration of Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in January 2023." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "During his time in the state House, Pryor gained a reputation as one of the Young Turks who were interested in reforming the state's political system." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Pryor said years later that the reforms he wanted didn't come as quickly as he had dreamed in his younger days." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The founder and publisher of the Ouachita Citizen weekly newspaper, Pryor started his political career in 1960 with his election to the Arkansas House." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "He was a great role model for politicians, but just for everyone in how we should treat each other and how we can make Arkansas better, Mark Pryor, a former two-term Democratic U.S. senator, said." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Pryor and his wife, Barbara, had three children." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "David would be like a fish out of water if he were out of public service, Bumpers, who served 18 years with Pryor in the Senate, said in 2006." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "David would be like a fish out of water if he were out of public service, Bumpers, who served 18 years with Pryor in the Senate, said in 2006." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "I guess I was a young reformer at the moment, Pryor said in 2006." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "David Pryor was considered one of the party's giants in Arkansas, alongside former President Bill Clinton and the late U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "David Pryor was considered one of the party's giants in Arkansas, alongside former President Bill Clinton and the late U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "David Pryor was considered one of the party's giants in Arkansas, alongside former President Bill Clinton and the late U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Pryor, who went undercover to investigate nursing homes while a congressman, died Saturday of natural causes in Little Rock surrounded by family, his son Mark Pryor, said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Pryor, who went undercover to investigate nursing homes while a congressman, died Saturday of natural causes in Little Rock surrounded by family, his son Mark Pryor, said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Following the McClellan race, I abandoned politics, or politics abandoned me, he wrote in his 2008 autobiography, A Pryor Commitment." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, a Democrat who was one of the state's most beloved political figures and remained active in public service in the state long after he left office, has died." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Elected governor in 1974, replacing Bumpers, Pryor served four years before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where Pryor won passage of a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in 1988." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Elected governor in 1974, replacing Bumpers, Pryor served four years before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where Pryor won passage of a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in 1988." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Elected governor in 1974, replacing Bumpers, Pryor served four years before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where Pryor won passage of a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in 1988." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Pryor decided to not seek re-election in 1996, and he retired from elective office at the end of his term in early 1997." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "It was a defeat that stung Pryor decades later." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Pryor was a heart attack and stroke survivor who was also hospitalized in 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "He experienced his first -- and only -- political defeat in 1972, when he challenged U.S. Sen. John McClellan's bid for a sixth term in the Democratic primary." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "On the University of Arkansas' Board of Trustees, Pryor was an outspoken opponent of a $160 million plan to expand Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in 2016 and criticized the nuclear arms race among college football programs." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "I didn't sponsor this bill to help Donald Trump or Lee Iacocca, Pryor, who chaired the Finance Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Oversight, said at the time." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "I didn't sponsor this bill to help Donald Trump or Lee Iacocca, Pryor, who chaired the Finance Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Oversight, said at the time." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Pryor was able to force a runoff with McClellan, but he lost by about 18,000 votes." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Pryor was able to force a runoff with McClellan, but he lost by about 18,000 votes." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : He served two years as the inaugural dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, located next to the former president's library in downtown Little Rock.34% : "I didn't sponsor this bill to help Donald Trump or Lee Iacocca," Pryor, who chaired the Finance Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Oversight, said at the time.
*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.