The Week Article Rating

Kansas police raid small-town local newspaper, setting off a press freedoms clash

Aug 14, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -60% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : First Amendment and press freedom experts slammed the raids, saying Cody's understanding of the law was flawed and the Record has good grounds to sue.

*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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