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The Mercury News Article Rating

'Godfather' behind 'Varsity Blues' college admissions scandal said he could get one parent's child into Harvard for $1.2M

Sep 16, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    30% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Recordings of conversations between Singer and Donna Heinel, the former senior associate athletic director at USC, discussed "structuring" some donations, which FBI Special Agent Keith Brown told jurors meant breaking them into smaller amounts to evade taxes.

*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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