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NBC gives Trump equal air time after complaint over Harris SNL appearance

  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    11% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

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14% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "A direct-to-camera appeal from Trump to 'go and vote' aired during this evening's NASCAR post-race show," Stelter noted.
52% : Brian Stelter, CNN's media analyst, reported on Sunday that NBC stations were giving Trump equal time under FCC mandates.
49% : "We're two days away from the most important election in the history of our country," Trump told the public, in an address which also made wild claims.
42% : "Some viewers also noted that Harris's "mirror image" comedy sketch was conceptually identical to a sketch Trump featured in with ex-SNL comedian Jimmy Fallon on Fallon's the Tonight Show in 2015.
30% : Trump disavowed the comedian but did not apologize.
27% : Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of SNL, which is celebrating its 50th season NBC, told the Hollywood Reporter in September that neither Harris or Trump would themselves appear on the show.
25% : "I'm just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something your opponent can't do - you can open doors," Harris told Rudolph, seemingly referring to a video from earlier in the week in which Trump had struggled to reach the handle of a garbage truck he briefly rode in to a Wisconsin rally.

*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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