Punchbowl News
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Punchbowl News is an online political news daily in Washington, D.C., which debuted on January 3, 2021, as "a membership-based news community", focused on the individuals "who power the US legislature". It aims to be non-partisan and non-judgemental, focusing on scoops and facts about Congress and the Washington power establishment, particularly core power players. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- 🌶️ Worded to stir 13% of its headlines · median 32 · 41% of the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 24% of its headlines · median 40 · 60% of the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 7.6 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · 2.1× the median
- 📡 Wire copy 0% AP or Reuters headlines · median 0 · like the median outlet
The bar is this outlet; the tick ▏ is the median of the 145 outlets on the outlets page, over 30 days.
🧬 Its fingerprint
🏷️ No settled type
It sits between the types that
hold together.
📡 Wire: 1st percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 1% of the 83 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 6th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 6% of them.
👯 Behaves most like Semafor, Axios and The Epoch Times.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (25 of our stories, 398 headlines), not from its ratings.
🎭 The feelings in its headlines
🥛 calmer than most less fear 😱
Its headlines on its front page now against the average outlet's, ranked-choice style: to the right in orange, more of a feeling than the average outlet; to the left in teal, less; grey, within 2 points of it. The figure is in percentage points; hover or tap a row for both shares. Only 9 of its headlines are read so far, so a few can swing it.
- 🥛 no strong feeling +21 pts
- 🤬 anger +7 pts
- 🤮 disgust ≈ same
- 😭 sadness ≈ -2
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 🤯 surprise -5 pts
- 🤞 hope -8 pts
- 😱 fear -12 pts
📰 On its front page now
🐑 With the pack
headlines in our stories, by the story's rank among the 73 we follow now (the most outlets first); the bar is how many outlets run the story, 🫏 blue the left-rated share and 🐘 red the right-rated
🦄 Only here
headlines in none of the stories we follow: few or no other outlets ran them, as far as our matching can tell; numbered by their place on its front page
- 🦄 Tribal staredown over permitting Policy
- 🦄 Thune on 'blamecasting,' Trump and his own future
- 🦄 Jim Jordan's long to-do list Washington
- 🦄 What Patty Murray wants on Iran war, funding premium House
- 🦄 The Democratic moderates fight back Washington
- 🦄 Schumer's long road to December Washington
- 🦄 MAHA's bad moment could get worse The MAHA movement has devolved into a chaotic cacophony of finger-pointing over who is to blame for a lack of achievements during the Trump administration following Republicans' stinging midterm loss. premium Healthcare