The National Desk
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- 🌶️ Worded to stir 22% of its headlines · median 32 · 69% of the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 37% of its headlines · median 40 · about the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 1.5 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · 42% of 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
🏷️ Outside the partisan webs
Everyone outside the two partisan webs, from the wires to cable news: a big, mixed group that runs more of the stories everyone runs. Not a mark of quality or lean; its look-alikes say more.
📡 Wire: 73rd percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 73% of the 83 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 44th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 44% of them.
👯 Behaves most like The Washington Times, News Nation and Yahoo News.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (168 of our stories, 532 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.
- 🥛 no strong feeling +19 pts
- 🤞 hope +5 pts
- 🤯 surprise +4 pts
- 🤮 disgust ≈ -1
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 😭 sadness -5 pts
- 🤬 anger -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
- 🦄 Massachusetts Democrat on White House warning against admin probes: 'Come at me, bro'
- 🦄 Trump gives mixed messages on immigration strategy
- 🦄 Massie announces he has enough signatures for discharge petition for Epstein Files part 2
- 🦄 Sean Spicer urges extra vetting for El-Sayed, cites allege Muslim Brotherhood family ties
- 🦄 Redistricting wars largely backfire on Republicans as Democrats ride blue wave
- 🦄 Fact Check Team: Trump's arch faces legal fight as Oval Office becomes monument
- 🦄 Fact Check Team: Rising healthcare costs could become top issue in 2028 presidential race
- 🦄 Fact Check Team: Is the two-party American system coming to an end?
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