The National Desk
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- 🌶️ Worded to stir 22% of its headlines · median 33 · 67% of the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 37% of its headlines · median 40 · about the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 2.2 per 100 headlines · median 3.3 · 67% 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
🏷️ Washington and network news · part of the outside the partisan webs
Washington and the big shared stories, close to the wires.
📡 Wire: 70th percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 70% of the 83 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 43rd percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 43% of them.
👯 Behaves most like The Washington Times, Just the News and News Nation.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (185 of our stories, 587 headlines), not from its ratings.
🎭 The feelings in its headlines
🥛 calmer than most less anger 🤬
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 +11 pts
- 🤞 hope +4 pts
- 😄 joy +3 pts
- 🤯 surprise ≈ +1
- 🤮 disgust ≈ same
- 😭 sadness ≈ -2
- 😱 fear -8 pts
- 🤬 anger -9 pts
📰 On its front page now
🐑 With the pack
headlines in our stories, by the story's rank among the 62 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
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