I won a Pulitzer at the Times. Former editor is right about paper becoming a 'culture of intolerance'

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    86% Negative

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

Overall Sentiment

-11% Negative

  •   Liberal
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"But Beet has done well in exposing how a lack of courage has weakened the paper and helped diminish public confidence in journalism, vital to any democracy."
Positive
10% Conservative
"His 17,000-word cover story focuses on how he was chased out of the paper for publishing an op-ed by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton which argued that the U.S. military should be called in if local police needed support in ending urban riots and violent protests over the murder of George Floyd.RENEWED SPOTLIGHT ON 'ILLIBERAL BIAS' AT NEW YORK TIMES"
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-8% Liberal
"Beet mentions that the Times was slow to break it to its readers that there was less to [former President Donald] Trump's ties to Russia than they were hoping."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Beet also detected ideological bias in its belated coverage of Hunter Biden's laptop, and its slow acknowledgment that Trump might have been right in asserting that COVID came from a Chinese lab."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"And though Beet bizarrely calls the project excellent, he could not help but point out that while the Times never acknowledged significant errors in that project, it lost little time in asserting that the Cotton op-ed did not meet the paper's standards and should not have been published."
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-24% Liberal
"But Gerth, my friend and former Times colleague, documented last February in excruciating detail for the Columbia Journalism Review what former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker called the media's willful deception, especially The Times, in its coverage of Trump's alleged coections to Russia and more broadly, in its other reporting on Trump, whom it clearly and openly despised."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But Gerth, my friend and former Times colleague, documented last February in excruciating detail for the Columbia Journalism Review what former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker called the media's willful deception, especially The Times, in its coverage of Trump's alleged coections to Russia and more broadly, in its other reporting on Trump, whom it clearly and openly despised."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But the drift leftward and blurring of news and commentary preceded Beet's forced resignation and Trump's presidency."
Negative
-28% Liberal

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55% : But Bennet has done well in exposing how a lack of courage has weakened the paper and helped diminish public confidence in journalism, vital to any democracy.

*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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