Blindspots
Big stories one side of politics covered and the other ignored.
Live12 only on the left16 only on the right22 mostly one side493 News stories checked this week
Only on the left12 stories
Covered by left-leaning newsrooms, not yet by any on the right.
- Incumbent Maria Elvira Salazar wins Florida's District 27 race, CBS News projects
First on the left: The Washington Post. Also NBC News, The New York Times and CBS News. None of the 15 right-leaning newsrooms we read.
- Pope Leo meets victims of abuse by clergy in Argentina
First on the left: The Guardian. Also The New York Times, Al Jazeera and NPR. None of the 14 right-leaning newsrooms we read.
Mostly one side
Both sides have these, but one is doing most of the covering: three or more of its newsrooms, and at least 65% of the left and right newsrooms on it.
Mostly the left8 stories
- Bernie Sanders says he won’t support Schumer for Senate Democratic leader
On the right: Breitbart and The Washington Times.
How it’s rated
- Each newsroom’s lean is AllSides’s rating of its news coverage (checked November 2026), not ours. Newsrooms AllSides hasn’t rated are left out of the count.
- Left counts Left and Lean left; right counts Lean right and Right. Centre outlets don’t make or break a blindspot.
- Mostly one side: both sides have the story, but one side has three or more newsrooms on it and at least 65% of the left and right newsrooms between them.
- A blindspot can close at any time: often the other side is just slower. Who covered a story says nothing about whether it’s true.
| Rating | Newsrooms we read |
|---|---|
| Left | HuffPost, The Guardian, Vox, Today Beast, The Nation, Slate, The Intercept, The New Yorker |
| Lean left | The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Politico, Axios, Al Jazeera |
| Centre | BBC News, PBS News, The Hill, Bloomberg, NewsNation, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Reason, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times |
| Lean right | The Dispatch, The Free Press, Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, National Review, Daily Mail |
| Right | Fox News, New York Post, Today Wire, Breitbart, The Federalist, Today Caller, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon, Townhall, Today Signal, The Post Millennial |
Across 493 News stories this week that both sides could have covered, with two or more rated newsrooms: the left covered 341, the centre 325, the right 300.
