How the news feels
A local language model reads each news headline and ranks up to three feelings it's most likely to stir in a reader. Like ranked-choice voting, each headline's vote is split 3:2:1 across them, and these are the shares of all the votes. 52,590 news headlines from the last 7 days; lifestyle and shopping items are left out.
⚖️ By side
all the news headlines from left-leaning, center and right-leaning outlets: each bar is their whole vote, split by feeling, in the tiles' colors; point at a part for its share
- fear
- anger
- sadness
- disgust
- surprise
- joy
- hope
- neutral
⚪ Outlets whose lean isn't rated (15,044 headlines) aren't on a side: their biggest feeling is 😱 fear, 14%.
📰 By outlet
the outlets whose news headlines stir each feeling most, in pairs; each colored by its lean. Point at one for all eight of its feelings. Outlets need 30 or more headlines to count.
- Left
- Leans left
- Center
- Leans right
- Right
- Lean not rated
😱 Most fearful
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's fear
🤞 Most hopeful
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's hope
🤬 Angriest
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's anger
🥛 Calmest
the bar is the share of its headlines' vote that went to no strong feeling at all (🥛)
😭 Saddest
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's sadness
😄 Most joyful
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's joy
🤮 Most stomach-turning
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's disgust
🤯 Most jaw-dropping
the bar is the share of its headlines' feeling that's surprise
📋 Every outlet's eight feelings, as numbers (125 outlets)
Each outlet's share of the feeling in its news headlines; darker is a larger share. Click a column to sort.
| Outlet | fear | anger | sadness | disgust | surprise | joy | hope | neutral | Headlines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 ABC News |
22% | 11% | 12% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 6% | 45% | 302 |
 Al Jazeera |
20% | 13% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 52% | 1050 |
 Alternet |
24% | 39% | 2% | 14% | 8% | 0% | 2% | 11% | 290 |
| American Thinker | 21% | 24% | 2% | 10% | 5% | 5% | 12% | 21% | 34 |
 AP |
13% | 7% | 7% | 1% | 2% | 6% | 7% | 57% | 545 |
 Axios |
13% | 18% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 1% | 8% | 50% | 209 |
 BBC |
16% | 11% | 8% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 6% | 48% | 518 |
 Bloomberg |
16% | 9% | 5% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 11% | 54% | 1136 |
 Breitbart |
16% | 28% | 3% | 9% | 7% | 4% | 9% | 23% | 773 |
 Business Insider |
7% | 8% | 5% | 2% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 64% | 216 |
 Caixin Global |
11% | 8% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 7% | 63% | 115 |
 CBC |
18% | 13% | 11% | 2% | 4% | 3% | 6% | 43% | 357 |
 CBS News |
18% | 12% | 7% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 9% | 49% | 274 |
 Chicago Tribune |
9% | 6% | 8% | 1% | 2% | 7% | 10% | 56% | 475 |
 CNBC |
13% | 9% | 4% | 0% | 4% | 1% | 12% | 57% | 710 |
 CNN |
23% | 14% | 9% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 40% | 426 |
 Crooks and Liars |
16% | 37% | 1% | 19% | 10% | 4% | 5% | 9% | 86 |
 Daily Mail |
25% | 20% | 12% | 8% | 7% | 2% | 4% | 22% | 1675 |
 Drudge Report |
21% | 23% | 4% | 7% | 8% | 2% | 6% | 29% | 340 |
| Financial Times | 19% | 15% | 3% | 2% | 6% | 1% | 14% | 40% | 219 |
 Forbes |
8% | 10% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 6% | 11% | 53% | 381 |
 Foreign Policy |
13% | 16% | 2% | 2% | 9% | 1% | 12% | 46% | 57 |
 Fortune |
11% | 12% | 6% | 3% | 12% | 2% | 11% | 43% | 200 |
 Fox Business |
14% | 12% | 5% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 9% | 54% | 83 |
 Fox News |
15% | 22% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 3% | 9% | 33% | 1312 |
 France24 |
14% | 14% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 6% | 50% | 597 |
 Global Times |
4% | 6% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 18% | 64% | 211 |
 Google News |
12% | 11% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 57% | 1756 |
 HuffPost |
17% | 28% | 4% | 10% | 9% | 3% | 7% | 23% | 482 |
 IJR |
17% | 8% | 9% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 56% | 242 |
 India Times |
13% | 13% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 6% | 9% | 43% | 2023 |
 Jacobin |
10% | 22% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 9% | 19% | 27% | 37 |
 Just the News |
13% | 17% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 10% | 49% | 303 |
 Le Monde |
18% | 14% | 8% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 9% | 45% | 220 |
 livemint.com |
7% | 5% | 3% | 1% | 4% | 4% | 8% | 67% | 1260 |
 Los Angeles Times |
14% | 10% | 7% | 2% | 4% | 6% | 11% | 45% | 491 |
 MarketWatch |
14% | 7% | 5% | 0% | 8% | 3% | 15% | 47% | 172 |
 Mediaite |
12% | 37% | 2% | 15% | 12% | 2% | 3% | 16% | 331 |
 Military.com |
12% | 12% | 7% | 3% | 1% | 5% | 18% | 41% | 140 |
 Mother Jones |
16% | 25% | 3% | 8% | 11% | 3% | 13% | 21% | 61 |
 MSNBC |
9% | 20% | 2% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 20% | 32% | 52 |
 National Post |
13% | 20% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 1% | 9% | 38% | 135 |
 National Review |
14% | 26% | 3% | 7% | 6% | 2% | 17% | 25% | 31 |
 NBC News |
19% | 16% | 9% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 41% | 464 |
 NDTV |
24% | 18% | 9% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 34% | 726 |
 New York Magazine |
10% | 20% | 2% | 7% | 11% | 7% | 11% | 32% | 124 |
 New York Post |
21% | 19% | 9% | 8% | 7% | 4% | 5% | 28% | 2582 |
 New York Times |
15% | 16% | 6% | 3% | 6% | 2% | 10% | 43% | 375 |
 News 18 |
14% | 11% | 6% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 51% | 1505 |
 News Nation |
17% | 13% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 1% | 6% | 48% | 183 |
 Newsmax |
14% | 19% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 12% | 43% | 1231 |
 Newsweek |
15% | 18% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 1% | 8% | 42% | 443 |
 Nikkei Asia |
13% | 8% | 4% | 0% | 3% | 1% | 10% | 60% | 184 |
 NPR |
10% | 8% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 3% | 16% | 53% | 149 |
 OAN |
7% | 13% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 6% | 16% | 50% | 102 |
 PBS NewsHour |
10% | 12% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 14% | 50% | 134 |
 PJ Media |
19% | 26% | 3% | 9% | 8% | 2% | 9% | 25% | 130 |
 Political Wire |
10% | 18% | 2% | 3% | 6% | 2% | 11% | 49% | 511 |
 Punchbowl News |
6% | 11% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 9% | 68% | 150 |
 RFE/RL |
17% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 6% | 62% | 87 |
 Raw Story |
26% | 42% | 2% | 16% | 8% | 0% | 1% | 6% | 507 |
 Real Clear Politics |
11% | 22% | 2% | 6% | 7% | 2% | 15% | 36% | 217 |
 Reason |
13% | 22% | 2% | 6% | 9% | 3% | 16% | 30% | 87 |
 Red State |
16% | 27% | 3% | 7% | 9% | 3% | 8% | 28% | 248 |
 Reuters |
14% | 7% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 7% | 60% | 1475 |
 Rolling Stone |
8% | 12% | 7% | 3% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 53% | 176 |
 RT |
23% | 22% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 0% | 2% | 39% | 249 |
 Scripps News |
18% | 13% | 8% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 9% | 45% | 86 |
 Semafor |
11% | 12% | 4% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 5% | 62% | 167 |
 Sky News |
29% | 14% | 14% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 3% | 35% | 184 |
 Slate |
9% | 22% | 1% | 6% | 18% | 2% | 15% | 25% | 63 |
 SCMP |
13% | 10% | 6% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 11% | 51% | 732 |
| Star Tribune | 5% | 7% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 7% | 11% | 61% | 222 |
 Straight Arrow News |
10% | 12% | 4% | 2% | 11% | 3% | 11% | 46% | 46 |
 Sydney Morning Herald |
14% | 16% | 8% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 6% | 40% | 873 |
 Taipei Times |
11% | 6% | 4% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 9% | 62% | 255 |
 Talking Points Memo |
15% | 25% | 1% | 8% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 46% | 41 |
 Tampa Bay Times |
9% | 6% | 7% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 7% | 63% | 238 |
 The American Conservative |
18% | 23% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 15% | 32% | 39 |
 The American Spectator |
12% | 26% | 4% | 10% | 11% | 2% | 6% | 29% | 42 |
 The Atlantic |
19% | 24% | 2% | 8% | 9% | 3% | 6% | 30% | 86 |
 The Blaze |
19% | 30% | 6% | 10% | 8% | 4% | 7% | 17% | 132 |
 The Bulwark |
22% | 32% | 1% | 11% | 11% | 2% | 10% | 11% | 88 |
 CS Monitor |
4% | 2% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 2% | 17% | 70% | 47 |
 The Daily Beast |
24% | 36% | 3% | 16% | 10% | 1% | 2% | 7% | 402 |
 The Daily Caller |
18% | 28% | 3% | 8% | 11% | 2% | 7% | 22% | 237 |
 The Daily Kos |
15% | 30% | 1% | 10% | 9% | 5% | 8% | 22% | 85 |
 The Daily Signal |
9% | 24% | 1% | 4% | 9% | 2% | 11% | 41% | 139 |
 The Daily Wire |
16% | 26% | 3% | 8% | 8% | 2% | 9% | 27% | 226 |
 The Economist |
16% | 10% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 8% | 49% | 89 |
 The Epoch Times |
13% | 12% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 11% | 55% | 643 |
 The Federalist |
14% | 30% | 0% | 11% | 10% | 3% | 19% | 14% | 98 |
 The Gateway Pundit |
22% | 31% | 2% | 10% | 9% | 3% | 6% | 18% | 327 |
 The Globe and Mail |
10% | 8% | 5% | 1% | 4% | 4% | 10% | 59% | 803 |
 The Guardian |
16% | 16% | 6% | 4% | 7% | 5% | 10% | 36% | 814 |
 The Hill |
9% | 18% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 11% | 48% | 646 |
 The Independent |
19% | 22% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 2% | 4% | 30% | 564 |
 The Indian Express |
13% | 12% | 8% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 53% | 1707 |
 The Japan Times |
13% | 10% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 57% | 441 |
 The Kyiv Independent |
24% | 10% | 10% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 10% | 43% | 356 |
 The Moscow Times |
25% | 14% | 8% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 46% | 159 |
 The Nation |
13% | 16% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 15% | 35% | 53 |
 The National Desk |
14% | 14% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 9% | 49% | 233 |
 The National Pulse |
21% | 29% | 5% | 11% | 7% | 0% | 6% | 22% | 71 |
 The New Republic |
19% | 34% | 2% | 9% | 10% | 1% | 9% | 17% | 103 |
 The Post Millennial |
20% | 26% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 3% | 9% | 26% | 102 |
 The Sun |
41% | 21% | 11% | 12% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 412 |
 The Telegraph |
20% | 17% | 6% | 4% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 25% | 52 |
 The Times of India |
17% | 14% | 8% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 42% | 3445 |
 WSJ |
15% | 22% | 3% | 3% | 10% | 1% | 13% | 34% | 80 |
 Free Beacon |
22% | 30% | 2% | 14% | 11% | 3% | 7% | 12% | 31 |
 The Washington Post |
8% | 11% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 10% | 11% | 48% | 863 |
 The Washington Sun |
10% | 15% | 5% | 3% | 9% | 4% | 10% | 44% | 98 |
 The Washington Times |
18% | 17% | 7% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 8% | 41% | 326 |
| The Week | 9% | 11% | 4% | 2% | 8% | 1% | 7% | 59% | 41 |
 The Western Journal |
22% | 28% | 3% | 11% | 9% | 3% | 8% | 15% | 164 |
 Time |
7% | 10% | 3% | 1% | 7% | 1% | 15% | 56% | 61 |
 Toronto Sun |
25% | 18% | 9% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 29% | 157 |
 Townhall |
18% | 28% | 3% | 9% | 9% | 1% | 7% | 26% | 318 |
 USA Today |
14% | 11% | 8% | 2% | 7% | 2% | 7% | 50% | 284 |
 Vox |
5% | 14% | 3% | 2% | 12% | 1% | 22% | 43% | 52 |
 Washington Examiner |
9% | 18% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 11% | 49% | 515 |
 Winnipeg Free Press |
15% | 9% | 8% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 10% | 52% | 775 |
 Xinhua |
3% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 5% | 16% | 72% | 195 |
 Yahoo News |
13% | 17% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 9% | 47% | 397 |