NBC Chicago Article Rating

Smell that? Potent wildfire smoke blankets Chicago, suburbs as air quality gets worse

Jun 27, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Just before 11 a.m. Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office moved to issue a statement about the air quality, saying "The City of Chicago is carefully monitoring and taking precautions as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has categorized our Air Quality Index as 'unhealthy' due to Canadian wildfire smoke present in the Chicago region," it read.

*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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