Time to send this teachers' union apple polisher packing

Mar 03, 2023 View Original Article
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  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

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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.

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"It's not just his relentless war on charter schools: He's also helped force the city to hire more teacher-union members and more directly undermine Mayor Eric Adams' control of the Department of Education."
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-26% Liberal
"The Pulitzer family remained prominent local philanthropists, especially of the arts, and having such demigods around was a source of civic pride."
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30% Conservative
"My hometown paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had been established by Joseph Pulitzer himself before he'd left for New York -- and the prizes, especially those we'd won over the years, were held in hushed reverence and awe."
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22% Conservative
"My first job at Columbia had been curating the journalism school's centeial, massaging the Pulitzer legacy for maximum fundraising."
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16% Conservative
"Joseph Pulitzer"
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"That said, wiing a Pulitzer is still no mark of shame, just a red flag for readers to double-check awardees' ideologies and incentives."
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-4% Liberal
"Officially it was that the grand old man had pangs of conscience about his yellow journalism vs. William Randolph Hearst amid the Spanish-American War, but there was also good reason he'd been the villain in Newsies.Joseph Pulitzer had been an imperious neurotic, ahead of his time but cruel, greedy, vengeful and vain."
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-16% Liberal
"And so too it's hard to say how much today's vacuous prizes sanctifying contemporary yellow journalism truly betray Pulitzer's intentions."
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-18% Liberal
"That balance finally broke down by the later 2000s amid online polarization, deaths of the old guard and the Obama campaign."
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-24% Liberal
"They were a sad cartoon well ahead of Donald Trump descending that golden escalator."
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-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : It's not just his relentless war on charter schools: He's also helped force the city to hire more teacher-union members and more directly undermine Mayor Eric Adams' control of the Department of Education.

*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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