News in Review: Friday, February 3, 2023

What does the news landscape look like?

There has not been a dominant top story over the past few days. Yesterday, the biggest story was House committee assignments. Coming in second was the Trump/GOP primaries, and third was the classified documents story. The Tyre Nichols story continues its descent.

This is how the top stories were covered on each side of the media yesterday:

• Santos / Omar / House committees (64% more on the left)

• Trump / GOP primaries (19% more on the left)

• Classified documents (241% more on the right)

Media bias ratings are from AllSides.

This is how articles from liberal and conservative outlets were distributed over the past five days amongst the top stories.

Liberal outlets used these words more than conservative outlets:

• body (9.3x)

• santos (7.9x)

• campaign (2.2x)

Conservative outlets used these words more than liberal outlets:

• nuclear (21.1x)

• laptop (10.6x)

• korea (8.6x)