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The Seattle Times Article Rating

Signs of the shameless times pop up in Seattle

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -29% 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

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5% Positive

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump repeatedly sought to gut the train service during his first presidency, Larsen said -- including the long-distance trains that will use this rail yard.
65% : Trump is next level at refusing to ever acknowledge defeat, which he does by insisting it was actually a smashing success (see Election, 2020).
57% : Trump has taken this to new levels.
31% : Trump, operating out of Mar-a-Lago at that point, called the bill "a loser for the USA, a terrible deal.
20% : Alert readers will have already calculated that Donald Trump was not the president in October.

*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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