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NPR Veteran Takes Sledgehammer to His Current Employer's Creeping Liberal Bias

Apr 09, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -52% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -67% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Berliner goes on to explain that the real tipping point was the reckoning that followed George Floyd's murder -- and NPR CEO John Lansing's reaction:"When it comes to identifying and ending systemic racism," Lansing wrote in a companywide article, "we can be agents of change.
54% : (The editorial guidance was prepared with the help of a former staffer of the National Center for Transgender Equality.)
44% : (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.)
1% : Berliner places the shift of the editorial point of view on the shoulders of Donald Trump, writing:Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.

*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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