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The Cleveland Plain Dealer's 'True North' Is Truly False

Apr 06, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    62% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    94% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : So for Quinn to tell Plain Dealer readers that Trump "sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power" isn't true in a legal sense -- or he would have been charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith for doing so.Completely ignored by Quinn is that President Joe Biden is the very first president in American history whose administration has gone out of its way to prosecute his political opponent to keep himself in power.
44% : Or maybe, closer to home, by partisans like Chris Quinn and the Cleveland Plain Dealer?The real fact here is that the Editor of the Plain Dealer has in fact made it plain that his highly subjective - and decidedly false - "true north" portrayal of Trump will be running the paper's coverage of the 2024 election.
42% : Trump was not needed to undermine faith in our elections.
28% : In the charges brought by Biden DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, not one charges Trump - or anybody else - with insurrection, and insurrection is in fact a chargeable crime.
27% : Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War.
26% : Biden is behaving in the fashion of a third world banana Republic dictator in his treatment of his political opposition -- and Trump is the problem?
21% : Quinn:The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency.
19% : This story about a "massive scheme" that resulted in a stolen election was reported in 1994 - a full 21 years before Donald Trump ever ran for president.
16% : Journalists who sound exactly like Democratic strategists proclaim Trump uniquely undermined faith in our elections...after they spent most of Trump's presidency implying daily that he stole the election in a conspiracy with the Russians.

*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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