Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Cornel West selects L.A. professor and activist Melina Abdullah as presidential running mate

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    5% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Smiley asked about these legal fights, and Abdullah said that as nonprofits, the various chapters that belong to Black Lives Matter Grassroots wouldn't be endorsing anyone in the 2024 race.
40% : Abdullah is well-known figure in local political circles: She co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and has been a fixture in recent years at protests and acts of civil disobedience on issues including police funding and the war in the Gaza Strip.
29% : "Trump is leading the country toward a second Civil War.
24% : "Both of us want to disrupt the narrative that you have only two choices," said Abdullah, 52, referring to Trump and President Biden, the presumptive major-party nominees.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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