News in Review: Thursday, February 2, 2023

What does the news landscape look like?

The Tyre Nichols story continues to decline, and the classified documents story has once again taken the top spot.

You may notice that some of the top stories in yesterday’s newsletter are now in different positions today. The “Trump / 2024 GOP race” story was called “Trump / DeSantis” yesterday, and it was in first place. The AI that powers this newsletter has retroactively split that story into multiple stories. You can see them here as “Trump / 2024 GOP race” and “AP Afr. Am. studies”, which contains many articles about Ron DeSantis.

Stories change over time and the AI retroactively applies those changes. I believe this is the right approach, but it can cause some confusion when looking at these charts day by day.

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

• Classified documents (47% more on the right)

• Trump / 2024 GOP race (25% more on the left)

• Debt ceiling (12% 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:

• percent (3.2x)

• santos (2.5x)

• campaign (1.5x)

Conservative outlets used these words more than liberal outlets:

• border (5.5x)

• fbi (1.5x)

• joe (1.4x)