Los Angeles Times Article Rating

California Democrats talked a big game on reparations. They're off to slow start

Sep 01, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    22% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-4% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Lawmakers passed 10 bills in the package before they adjourned Saturday, including marquee legislation requiring a formal apology from the state for "perpetuating the harms African Americans faced by having imbued racial prejudice through segregation, public and private discrimination, and unequal disbursal of state and federal funding and [declaring] that such actions shall not be repeated.
45% : Harris supported the idea of studying the generational effect of discrimination and institutional racism in order to consider potential interventions before the Democratic primary in her failed bid for the presidency in the 2020 election.
21% : Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, criticize her as a "left-leaning progressive Californian from San Francisco" to suggest she's out of touch with America, Nteta said.

*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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