NY Times Article Rating

Opinion | We Can Thank Drug Users for a Key Approach to Fighting Covid

Jul 24, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    20% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Federal agencies advised research grantees to avoid the term; U.S. representatives at United Nations meetings refused to sign health and drug policy documents supporting it.
41% : The concept of harm reduction has helped at least 18 states legalize marijuana by emphasizing the fact that it is less dangerous than legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco.
40% : That's because when doing less harm is the measure of success, harm that's caused by prohibition and law enforcement counts against it, making conventional antidrug policies unsustainable.
35% : After all, if prohibition worked, people wouldn't use illegal drugs, and no such alternative would be needed.

*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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