CBS News casts a long shadow of anti-Trump bias ahead of its vice-presidential debate
- Bias Rating
50% Medium Conservative
- Reliability
55% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
50% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-4% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
31% : The network's past coverage suggests Vance, like Trump, may enter a one-against-three political showdown.28% : "He is recovering from these injuries now, this was a traumatic event, no doubt, for him," Brennan said during CBS News' breaking news coverage after Trump released a statement on social media.
27% : "Of course he is, Lesley," Trump sternly doubled down.
25% : Perhaps the greatest example of CBS News' liberal bias was in 2020 when Trump famously sparred with "60 Minutes" veteran Lesley Stahl over the Hunter Biden laptop scandal just days before the election.
18% : Both Brennan and O'Donnell appeared to chastise Trump following July's assassination attempt, suggesting his own rhetoric led to the fatal shooting in Butler, PA.
12% : Trump insisted at the time that then-candidate Joe Biden was "in the midst of a scandal.
7% : Last month, Brennan ran cover for Harris after Trump began accusing his Democratic rival of being a "communist.""And a new line of false attack on Vice President Harris," Brennan told viewers in her "Face the Nation" intro before playing a clip of Trump telling rallygoers "Kamala went full communist.
*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.