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The culture war targets books: Why you should pay more attention to 'Maus' than Joe Rogan

Feb 10, 2022 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -36% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -17% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Banning books is a First Amendment violation; an economic boycott is a First Amendment
54% : The First Amendment binds governments and not companies, Schwartz says, and Spotify is not the government.
42% : The court was split in its decision, but Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote for the plurality opinion that "local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to 'prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.'

*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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