News in Review: Friday, January 20, 2023

What does the news landscape look like?

President Biden's handling of classified documents remains the top news story, as it has since it broke.  George Santos is in second place.  The debt ceiling has increased in prevalence.  Alec Baldwin and the Supreme Court draft opinion leak reentered the news cycle yesterday.

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

• Biden documents (121% more on the right)

• George Santos (161% more on the left)

• Debt ceiling / debt limit (27% more on the left)

Media bias ratings from are @AllSidesNow.

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:

• justices (2.3x)

• drag (2.2x)

• george (1.7x)

Conservative outlets used these words more than liberal outlets:

• pro (6.2x)

• percent (4.6x)

• abortion (2.9x)