New York Magazine Article Rating

What We Know About Trump's Fox News Defense Secretary Pick

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

18% Positive

  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
Unlock this feature by upgrading to the Pro plan.

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Trump is also pushing for senators to allow recess appointments of his nominees, which would give the president-elect the power to circumvent Senate confirmations for his nominations.
40% : "With Pete at the helm, America's enemies are on notice -- Our Military will be Great Again, and America Will Never Back Down," Trump wrote on TruthSocial on Tuesday.
33% : Trump would later intervene to prevent Gallagher from losing his rank.
31% : But Trump went in a very different direction for his Defense secretary pick, tapping Fox News commentator and Army National Guard officer Pete Hegseth.
18% : According to the outlet, Hegseth had multiple conversations with Trump about Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused of murdering a teenage ISIS prisoner and posing with the corpse in a photo.

*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.

Copy link