Week in Review: Sunday, January 8, 2023
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What does the news landscape look like?
Kevin McCarthy was the top story throughout last week, followed by Damar Hamlin. The January 6th anniversary and the latest jobs report entered the news cycle on Friday.
This is how the coverage level of each story differed on each "side" of the media. Media bias ratings are from @AllSidesNow:
Kevin McCarthy / Trump (42% more on the left)
Jan 6 / Biden (88% more on the left)
Hamlin / NFL (21% more on the right)
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 (8.8x)
border (4.0x)
desantis (1.7x)
Liberal outlets used these words more than conservative outlets:
power (0.9x)
ukrainian (0.7x)
election (0.6x)
