The media ledger

Who's covering Texas

Every fact sheet on this site is built from other outlets' reporting. This page counts who those outlets are and which way they lean, so you can see the slant in what gets reported before it ever reaches you.

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Where the reporting came from

4,310 news reports behind 1,509 fact sheets in the past 30 days.

470 left-leaning (11%)
84 center (2%)
121 right-leaning (3%)
3635 not rated (84%)

Covered by one side only

Stories where every rated outlet leans the same way. Nobody from the center or the other side reported them, at least not where this site could find it.

Left only: 294

Right only: 70

The outlets

Outlet	Leans	Fact sheets
CBS News	Lean Left	96
The Texas Tribune	Lean Left	89
The Texas Tribune	Lean Left	82
Click2Houston	Not rated	67
KSAT	Not rated	59
Dallas News	Not rated	57
Houston Public Media	Not rated	52
Yahoo	Lean Left	50
Houston Chronicle	Not rated	46
WFAA	Not rated	44
AOL.com	Not rated	41
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth	Not rated	41
Fox News	Right	41
Breitbart News	Right	40
KEYE	Not rated	36
KVUE	Not rated	36
FOX 7 Austin	Not rated	35
KXAN Austin	Not rated	35
Texas Public Radio \| TPR	Not rated	35
KFOX	Not rated	34
WOAI	Not rated	34
cbs19.tv	Not rated	34
Texas Scorecard	Not rated	32
ABC13 Houston	Not rated	31
KABB	Not rated	31
San Antonio Express-News	Not rated	31
Austin American-Statesman	Not rated	30
kens5.com	Not rated	29
Dallas Express	Not rated	28
FOX 26 Houston	Not rated	28
Sports Illustrated	Not rated	28
Hoodline	Not rated	27
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth	Not rated	27
Texas Border Business	Not rated	26
KHOU	Not rated	25
KTSM 9 News	Not rated	25
USA Today	Not rated	24
Chron	Not rated	23
KLTV.com	Not rated	22
Newsweek	Center	21
Reuters	Center	21
KDBC	Not rated	20
KUT	Not rated	20
Texas Standard	Not rated	20
El Paso Times	Not rated	19
Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Not rated	19
KBTX News 3	Not rated	19
KVIA	Not rated	18
CNN	Lean Left	16
www.kera.org	Not rated	16
Community Impact Newspaper	Not rated	15
New York Post	Right	15
The Hill	Center	15
cedarnews.net	Not rated	15
AP News	Lean Left	14
KCBD	Not rated	14
Spectrum News	Not rated	14
The Guardian	Left	14
The New York Times	Lean Left	14
Yahoo Sports	Lean Left	14

And 1215 more outlets with fewer sheets.

What the outlets aimed at each party

Stories that put a party in a bad light: accusations, attack ads, investigations, false claims, controversies. The first column is how many of those stories about each party reached this site from the outlets it reads. The second is how many this site shows, which is always the same number for both. Any gap between the columns is the outlets' imbalance.

	The outlets ran	Shown here
Against Republicans	149	111
Against Democrats	43	43

The outlets went after Republicans 3.5 to 1.

The AI, kept in check

An AI writes each fact sheet from the outlets' reporting, and it picks up their habits. When it writes a loaded word such as "embattled," "extremist," "fugitive" or "socialist" in its own voice, the sheet is thrown out and rewritten in plain terms.

10 times in the past 30 days the AI reached for the outlets' loaded language and was made to rewrite.

How these outlets get here

Most stories on this site are found through Google News headlines, plus Texas government records and a few direct feeds. Google decides which outlets appear in its headlines. This site then requires two separate outlets before a story goes up. Both steps shape what you see, and this page exists so you can see how.

Leanings are the AllSides Media Bias Ratings for each outlet's online news. Outlets AllSides hasn't rated show as "Not rated." Government records aren't counted.