Chicago Tribune Article Rating

Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they're tuning out.

  • Bias Rating

    54% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    86% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -41% 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

-3% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : MSNBC's slide is steeper than it was in 2016; and there's some question about whether Trump opponents will want to be as engaged as they were during his first term.
29% : MSNBC had similar issues after Trump was elected in 2016.
28% : Gude said, for example, that MSNBC will always have a hard-core audience of Trump haters.
17% : But if the network wants to expand its audience, "then you have to talk about issues, and you have to stop talking about Trump.
11% : MSNBC had its own anger issues after several "Morning Joe" viewers became upset that hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski visited Trump shortly after his victory last month.

*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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