News in Review: Monday, January 9, 2023

What does the news landscape look like?

Kevin McCarthy and Damar Hamlin remained the top stories through the weekend. President Biden’s visit to the Southern border rose to third place. Protesters storming Brazil’s capital entered the news cycle.

Yesterday’s stories with the most coverage in political media:

• Kevin McCarthy (30% more on the left)

• Damar Hamlin (33% more on the right)

• Biden / Mexico border (169% more on the right)

Media bias ratings from @AllSidesNow.

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

Conservative outlets used these words more than liberal outlets:

• illegal (12.6x)

• border (3.8x)

• visit (2.5x)

Liberal outlets used these words more than conservative outlets:

• russian (0.9x)

• caucus (0.7x)

• russia (0.6x)