News in Review: Thursday, January 12, 2023

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What does the news landscape look like?

The handling of classified documents by Presidents Biden and Trump is the top story. The FAA system outage and George Santos tie for second place.

This is how the coverage of the top stories was distributed across the political spectrum yesterday:

• Classified documents (About the same amount of coverage on each side)

• Santos / Ethics (117% more on the left)

• FAA outage (79% more on the right)

Media bias ratings are 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 (4.4x)

• paso (3.2x)

• border (2.9x)

Liberal outlets used these words more than conservative outlets:

• debt (0.9x)

• santos (0.7x)

• party (0.6x)