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Feb 01 2018
Perspectives Blog
Politico Media Bias Update
Previously: We split our evaluation of NPR into a media bias rating for NPR News (Center) and for NPR Editorial (Lean Left). We also completed an analysis of CNN where we kept the media bias rating for CNN Web News as Center, but created a new page for CNN Opinion (Far Left). After evaluating Fox, we changed the media bias rating for Fox News to Lean Right, and created a new page for
Lucy PintoMar 02 2017
News
AG Sessions' Talks With Russian Envoy May Conflict With Senate Testimony
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, while an adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump last year, spoke twice with the Russian ambassador, a source familiar with the matter tells NPR's Carrie Johnson. At his Senate confirmation hearing, when Sessions was asked about contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia, he said he had not "had communications with the Russians."
NPR (Online News)Oct 05 2020
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Trump appointee to VOA reporters: criticizing Trump is a conflict of interest
AMID ALLEGATIONS OF political interference at Voice of America, a Trump ally who heads the outlet’s parent agency has issued restrictive policy guidelines on conflicts of interest that would require journalists who are publicly critical of government agencies to recuse themselves from covering that agency. As an example, it says journalists who “like” a social media comment that “disparages
The InterceptDec 19 2012
News
Robert Bork, Who Was Turned Down For Supreme Court, Dies
Robert Bork, who was at the center of Senate hearings that "marked the modern battle lines over judicial nominations," as NPR's Nina Totenberg has said, is dead, according to The New York Times, Fox News and The Associated Press.
NPR (Online News)Jan 22 2015
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GOP-Led House Drops 20-Week Abortion Limit, Will Advance Funding Ban
House lawmakers were set to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban almost all abortions at 20 weeks post-conception, but NPR's Juana Summers reports that they changed their plans late Wednesday as some lawmakers voiced concerns that the bills language went too far.
NPR (Online News)Mar 18 2022
Perspectives Blog
Insider Bias Rating Moved to Lean Left: AllSides Survey
Insider’s bias rating has moved from Center to Lean Left. Respondents across the political spectrum rated Insider as Lean Left on average in the AllSides February 2022 Blind Bias Survey. A subsequent AllSides independent review confirmed the Lean Left rating.
People from across the political spectrum – people who identified as Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, or Right – rated the
AllSides StaffSep 27 2016
News
Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head to head Monday night in the first presidential debate.
NPR's politics team, with help from reporters and editors who cover national security, immigration, business, foreign policy and more, live annotated the debate. Portions of the debate with added analysis are underlined in yellow, followed by context and fact check.
NPR (Online News)May 19 2020
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Traffic Is Way Down Because Of Lockdown, But Air Pollution? Not So Much
With traffic dramatically down in recent months, the United States is in the middle of an accidental experiment showing what happens to air pollution when millions of people stop driving.
The air is clearer. But the pollution declines aren't nearly as large as early indications suggested, according to an NPR analysis of six years of Environmental Protection Agency data.
In some
NPR (Online News)Oct 29 2014
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Big GOP Names Stump For Local Candidates With Eye Toward 2016
Many national figures in the Republican Party have been trying to give GOP candidates a boost in competitive races — and potentially help their own future presidential ambitions. Renee Montagne checks in with NPR's Don Gonyea, who's been keeping tabs on who's out on the trail
NPR (Online News)Jul 21 2016
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FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's Republican Convention Speech, Annotated
Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president Thursday night, delivering a speech that lays out America's struggles with crime, terrorism and immigration and how he plans to address them.
NPR's politics team has annotated Trump's speech below. Portions we commented on are highlighted, followed by analysis, context and fact check in italics.
NPR (Online News)