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How the media write about sports · over the last 2 days

For every outlet that writes about sports, a language model rates the tone of its articles as positive, neutral or negative. That gives a tone index from 0 to 100, where 50 is balanced. At the top are the outlets that frame the news most positively, at the bottom the most negatively.

#OutletTone index
1thehindu.comArticles 54 · Pos / Neg 56% / 17%77Strongly positive
2mundodeportivo.comArticles 131 · Pos / Neg 43% / 24%64Positive
3motorsport.comArticles 55 · Pos / Neg 46% / 29%61Positive
4bbc.co.ukArticles 109 · Pos / Neg 39% / 26%61Positive
5sports.yahoo.comArticles 530 · Pos / Neg 28% / 28%50Neutral
6nytimes.comArticles 149 · Pos / Neg 24% / 27%47Neutral
7cbssports.comArticles 152 · Pos / Neg 20% / 23%47Neutral
8sportingnews.comArticles 51 · Pos / Neg 37% / 47%44Negative
9theguardian.comArticles 49 · Pos / Neg 22% / 39%37Negative
10profootballtalk.nbcsports.comArticles 55 · Pos / Neg 16% / 55%23Strongly negative

Showing outlets with ≥49 rated articles. 10 of 37 ranked. How it is calculated →

This is the tone of the articles as a model reads them, not a rating of an outlet's quality, reliability or bias. A high index often only means an outlet writes more about rallies and launches, a low one more about sell-offs, hacks and lawsuits.