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The Santa Barbara Independent is an alternative newspaper published every Thursday. The niche of the paper is local news in Santa Barbara County. The newspaper also covers news, food and drink, living, arts and entertainment, and opinion columns. It was founded in 1986 by Randy Campbell, Marianne Partridge, Rick Grand-Jean and Richard Parker, and has its headquarters in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Their website, https://www.independent.com/, has received 170,300 visits and is ranked 33,634 among other media sources in the United States, according to Similar Web.
Santa is ranked 9,133 among other media sources and has an average of 420,558 monthly visits according to Similar Web.
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Santa has a Bias Score of 12% Somewhat Conservative which is based on a variety of factors including its policy and politician leanings, article ratings, and the use of biased language. Its Reliability is rated as Good, and additional analytical insights are available in the other tabs.

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    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability
    77% Reliable Good
  • Policy Leanings

    30% Somewhat Conservative

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    *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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