The Weather Above Ground - The American Conservative

May 23, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    70% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -40% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    64% 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

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"De Blasio's signature policy in his first term was bestowing a City Hall blessing on the burgeoning anti-police movement inspired by Black Lives Matter."
Positive
28% Conservative
"But Giuliani was also able to surf a national wave with few contemporary parallels: a new movement within the Democratic party, centered in institutions like the Democratic Leadership Council, that pushed a rethinking of Sixties and New Deal liberalism."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Deference to Black Lives Matter and its key tenet, contempt for policing, has become the default stance of the governing and opinion-shaping class that rules most American cities."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Shellenberger demonstrates conclusively that present policies of laissez-faire plus handouts do not help the city's homeless."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"De Blasio's signature policy in his first term was bestowing a City Hall blessing on the burgeoning anti-police movement inspired by Black Lives Matter."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Whereas Bill de Blasio is something of an apparatchik, Boudin is genuine progressive royalty."
Positive
22% Conservative
"De Blasio loved to sneer at the city's rich, but Wall Street salaries accounted for 20 percent of private-sector wages."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Neither veteran congressman Charles Rangel nor ex-mayor David Dinkins, his previous employers, endorsed his mayoral bid in 2013."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Bill Clinton was a fellow traveler of this movement, and other Democrats were open to its perspectives."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Seth Barron takes as his pivot the two mayoral terms of Bill de Blasio, the city's recently departed progressive mayor."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"His son's flamboyant afro and de Blasio's public musings about the potential dangers he faced from racist police violence helped separate him from the pack of like-minded progressives in his first mayoral primary."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Shellenberger relates how in the 1970s much of the city's political elite treated the apostolic Marxist Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones as a moral paragon."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"De Blasio doubled down on his stance on policing after the death of Eric Garner, a morbidly obese man out on bail who died while resisting arrest for a minor crime."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Ruing in a state with a history of opening a path to non-professional politicians, he could well emerge from the non-party June primary as a contender against Gavin Newsom."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"San Francisco is a relatively small city, but it has served as the springboard for the careers of Diae Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, so the aspiration is not easily dismissed."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"San Francisco is a relatively small city, but it has served as the springboard for the careers of Diae Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, so the aspiration is not easily dismissed."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"San Francisco is a relatively small city, but it has served as the springboard for the careers of Diae Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, so the aspiration is not easily dismissed."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"San Francisco is a relatively small city, but it has served as the springboard for the careers of Diae Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, so the aspiration is not easily dismissed."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Jones's reputation diminished only after he decamped for Guyana and ordered his followers to drink the poisoned Kool-Aid."
Negative
-26% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% :De Blasio's signature policy in his first term was bestowing a City Hall blessing on the burgeoning anti-police movement inspired by Black Lives Matter.
58% : But Giuliani was also able to surf a national wave with few contemporary parallels: a new movement within the Democratic party, centered in institutions like the Democratic Leadership Council, that pushed a rethinking of Sixties and New Deal liberalism.
46% : Deference to Black Lives Matter and its key tenet, contempt for policing, has become the default stance of the governing and opinion-shaping class that rules most American cities.
37% : Shellenberger demonstrates conclusively that present policies of laissez-faire plus handouts do not help the city's homeless.

*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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