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.
Where the reporting came from
3,145 news reports behind 1,060 fact sheets in the past 30 days.
- 375 left-leaning (12%)
- 66 center (2%)
- 87 right-leaning (3%)
- 2617 not rated (83%)
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: 227
- Venezuelan man shot by ICE officer pleads not guilty to federal assault charge
- Abbott, Hinojosa post biggest fundraising totals in Texas governor race
- French and Rosenthal raise $1.3M combined for Texas Railroad Commission race
- CDC deputy director Shuford resigns after six months on job
- Storm system brings heavy rain threat to Texas Panhandles
- Fort Worth arena ends Dickies naming rights, becomes Ariat Arena
- Deep East Texas coalition launches broadband workforce development initiative
- Democrats seek to win Collin County in U.S. Senate race between Paxton and Talarico
- College Football Playoff contenders change after Week 8 upsets
- National Weather Service forecasts rain chances and temperatures for San Antonio week
- Trump campaigns in Texas with three former college football players
- Highland Park United Methodist Church votes to leave denomination
- Federal government considers moving border wall through Santa Ana wildlife refuge
- North Texas woman indicted in $680,000 COVID loan fraud scheme
- Texas DPS urges precautions for Halloween safety
Right only: 44
- WNBA player Cunningham waves checkered flag at Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix
- Burrows and Trump campaign for Texas Republican candidates
- University of Houston poll finds Texas voters concerned about data centers
- Robert Griffin III says he would take Baylor head football coach job
- San Antonio Zoning Commission recommends data center regulation option
- Thirteen charged in scheme to transport stolen vehicles to Mexican cartels
- Democratic and Republican candidates campaign in Texas ahead of November election
- Trump administration disputes 60 Minutes report on Texas man's deportation
- Conservative group releases report on nonprofit hospital spending in Texas
- Voters in Texas and other states report touchscreen vote-switching during early voting
- No. 19 Texas plays No. 7 Ole Miss in ranked college football game
- Texas athletic director clarifies AI platform was not used to call Florida play
- Gov. Abbott discusses Democratic candidates on political talk show
- Elon Musk donates record $446 million to Republican groups for midterms
- Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico campaigns across Texas
The outlets
And 974 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 | 101 | 73 |
| Against Democrats | 30 | 30 |
The outlets went after Republicans 3.4 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.
7 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.
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