News in Review: Wednesday, January 25, 2023

What does the news landscape look like?

Classified documents have been the top news story for the past four days, focusing on Presidents Biden, Trump, and now former Vice President Mike Pence. Two shootings in California are the second highest story, followed by Oscar nominations, which entered the news cycle yesterday.

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

• Classified documents (31% more on the right)

• California shootings (95% more on the left)

• Oscar nominations (145% more on the left)

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.

Liberal outlets used these words more than conservative outlets:

• bassett (9.3x)

• quiet (2.7x)

• film (2.1x)

Conservative outlets used these words more than liberal outlets:

• desantis (2.5x)

• biden (1.5x)

• fbi (1.3x)