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Finally: NY Times Notices Soft-on-Crime Hurting Dems in Big Cities

Jun 09, 2022 View Original Article
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    -8% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -30% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : If successful, the recall would overturn one of the nation's boldest efforts in criminal justice reform: an experiment to install a former public defender as the protector of public safety with promises to reduce mass incarceration, hold the police accountable and tackle racial disparities in the justice system.
40% : In June 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd, the Times confidently ran this front-page headline that aged like milk: "G.O.P., Blindsided By Public's Rage, Is Pressed To Act - Police Under Scrutiny - The Law and Order Party Loses Its Footing as Attitudes Shift."

*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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