How the news feels

A local language model reads each news headline and names the feeling it's most likely to stir in a reader, from the event and the wording together. 1596 news headlines from the last 7 days; lifestyle and shopping items are left out.

😨
18%
fear
😠
18%
anger
😢
6%
sadness
🤢
1%
disgust
😲
7%
surprise
😄
1%
joy
🤞
14%
hope
😐
35%
neutral

By side

Outlets 😨
fear		😠
anger		😢
sadness		🤢
disgust		😲
surprise		😄
joy		🤞
hope		😐
neutral		 Headlines
Left-leaning 19% 18% 6% 1% 6% 1% 15% 34% 1072
Center 20% 7% 0% 0% 2% 4% 9% 57% 44
Right-leaning 15% 20% 6% 1% 9% 2% 12% 35% 480

By outlet

Each outlet's news headlines by the feeling they stir; darker is a larger share. Click a column to sort. Outlets need 30 or more headlines to appear.

Outlet 😨
fear		😠
anger		😢
sadness		🤢
disgust		😲
surprise		😄
joy		🤞
hope		😐
neutral		 Headlines
CNN 37% 20% 0% 0% 0% 0% 10% 33% 30
Al Jazeera 36% 15% 3% 0% 5% 1% 12% 28% 138
ABC News 29% 6% 11% 0% 1% 0% 15% 38% 72
AP 24% 15% 9% 2% 4% 3% 10% 32% 123
Alternet 11% 60% 3% 0% 13% 0% 1% 12% 75
Breitbart 20% 39% 2% 1% 11% 1% 4% 22% 142
CBS News 16% 18% 5% 0% 2% 0% 12% 46% 81
BBC 14% 10% 12% 3% 20% 1% 13% 27% 93
CBC 8% 11% 11% 3% 14% 0% 14% 40% 37
CNBC 8% 4% 4% 0% 2% 0% 33% 50% 101
Bloomberg 20% 11% 1% 0% 8% 0% 23% 37% 118
The Times of India 19% 3% 6% 0% 16% 6% 23% 26% 31
Caixin Global 9% 8% 8% 0% 3% 0% 20% 52% 87
Chicago Tribune 7% 7% 7% 2% 6% 3% 16% 52% 97

By topic

Topic 😨
fear		😠
anger		😢
sadness		🤢
disgust		😲
surprise		😄
joy		🤞
hope		😐
neutral		 Headlines
Iran War 48% 10% 0% 0% 16% 0% 0% 26% 31
Midterm Battle 0% 28% 0% 0% 4% 0% 12% 56% 25
Affordability Crisis 14% 11% 3% 0% 5% 0% 40% 27% 37
Updated at 2026-10-03 12:00:18 EST (GMT-5). Updates are every 30 minutes.
All bias and credibility ratings are taken from Media Bias/Fact Check