Masthead Maine Article Rating

Palin resumes libel battle with New York Times

Feb 04, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    28% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    40% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The former Alaska governor sued the newspaper in 2017, accusing it of damaging her career as a political commentator with an editorial about gun control.
41% : A lawyer for The Times, David Axelrod, told jurors the editorial was primarily about gun laws, not Palin, and was not a "political hit job."
40% : Palin sued the Times in 2017, accusing it of damaging her career as a political commentator with an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice in Washington.

*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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