Reagan who? Gorbachev's death gives the Media a new chance to slight Reagan

Aug 30, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"While plenty of brave and consequential people played a role in taking down communism, no one compares to the Gipper."
Positive
12% Conservative
"The Left's transparent attempt to minimize Reagan's central role in wiing the 20th century for the Free World is nevertheless nothing short of criminal."
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-32% Liberal
"Adelman also observes that while Reagan was relentless in pushing the Soviets and seeking advantage over them, he was nimble in working with Gorbachev when he perceived, much earlier than most, that Gorbachev could be the critical source of change he had sought for so long."
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-8% Liberal
"As Paul Lettow explained in his NRO review of Ken Adelman's Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, it was Reagan who set the tone of the meeting - and the relationship - which succeeded in lighting a fire under Gorbachev:...after Reykjavik, Gorbachev saw much less hope of restraining the U.S.-Soviet competition through near-term agreements, and more urgency for making more-thorough changes in Soviet foreign and domestic policy."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"As Paul Lettow explained in his NRO review of Ken Adelman's Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, it was Reagan who set the tone of the meeting - and the relationship - which succeeded in lighting a fire under Gorbachev:...after Reykjavik, Gorbachev saw much less hope of restraining the U.S.-Soviet competition through near-term agreements, and more urgency for making more-thorough changes in Soviet foreign and domestic policy."
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-14% Liberal
"The CNN article mentions Reagan only twice; in this excerpt, the liberal cable news network suggests the Cold War's demise began with a Gorbachev overture:In 1986, face to face with American President Ronald Reagan at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Gorbachev made a stuing proposal: eliminate all long-range missiles held by the United States and the Soviet Union."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The CNN article mentions Reagan only twice; in this excerpt, the liberal cable news network suggests the Cold War's demise began with a Gorbachev overture:In 1986, face to face with American President Ronald Reagan at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Gorbachev made a stuing proposal: eliminate all long-range missiles held by the United States and the Soviet Union."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The Left's transparent attempt to minimize Reagan's central role in wiing the 20th century for the Free World is nevertheless nothing short of criminal."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"But Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program and 'Reagan Doctrine' drove the Soviet economy into the ground and weakened the Evil Empire's grip on its foreign spheres of influence."
Negative
-68% Liberal
"But Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program and 'Reagan Doctrine' drove the Soviet economy into the ground and weakened the Evil Empire's grip on its foreign spheres of influence."
Negative
-68% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : While plenty of brave and consequential people played a role in taking down communism, no one compares to the Gipper.
34% : The Left's transparent attempt to minimize Reagan's central role in winning the 20th century for the Free World is nevertheless nothing short of criminal.

*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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