Talking Points Memo
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Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a liberal political news and commentary website that started as a blog created and run by Josh Marshall. It debuted in November 2000. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- 🌶️ Worded to stir 57% of its headlines · median 32 · 1.8× the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 57% of its headlines · median 40 · 1.4× the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 0 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · none
- 📡 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
🏷️ Left opinion · part of the left partisan web
Commentary on Trump, late to stories, and furthest from the wires' vocabulary.
📡 Wire: 17th percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 17% of the 83 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 67th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 67% of them.
👯 Behaves most like The Daily Kos, MSNBC and New York Magazine.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (37 of our stories, 195 headlines), not from its ratings.
🎭 The feelings in its headlines
🤬 more anger than most less calm 🥛
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 5 of its headlines are read so far, so a few can swing it.
- 🤬 anger +21 pts
- 🤞 hope +6 pts
- 🤮 disgust +4 pts
- 😱 fear ≈ +1
- 😭 sadness ≈ +1
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 🤯 surprise -5 pts
- 🥛 no strong feeling -27 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