NBC News Article Rating

Why the Baltimore bridge stood little chance against a fully loaded cargo ship

Mar 27, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    54% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "However, Kevin Heaslip, director for the Center for Transportation Research and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said that the cost of designing bridges to withstand fully loaded cargo ships like the Dali would "be so high that we wouldn't be able to have any bridges.
47% : "Government oversight of bridges could increaseTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he has been monitoring the situation in Baltimore.

*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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