In Top Down News, we unify, compare, and distill many mainstream perspectives that capture most of America’s political readership to approximate the truth.
These are the top stories aggregated by attention from various mainstream media outlets. Breakdown by media outlet is available in the appendix.
You can find links in the appendix below.
From a 2020 Pew Report, 60% of Republicans turn to Fox News for political news and 53% of Democrats turn to CNN. By comparing what CNN and Fox is focused on, we can get a current top-down view of the partisan divide in the US over the past week.
This is a hot topic for both sides with bias by slant emerging. CNN portrays the FBI and DOJ as systematic and fair. Fox News presents the FBI as a bully and the investigation as partisan in nature, while portraying Trump’s lawyer as fair.
Trump considering releasing footage of FBI Mar-a-Lago search
DOJ took 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago
'Nonsense': Honig breaks down Trump's argument on Mar-a-Lago search warrant
Trump says FBI made demand about cameras during Mar-a-Lago search
Dem reminded of his alleged romance with Chinese spy after Mar-a-Lago tweet
Trump's lawyer certified in June that no classified material remained at Mar-a-Lago
For CNN readers, the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act is seen as a win, despite the name not covering the meat of the bill. For Fox News, this bill is portrayed as dangerous for Americans using terms such as “social spending bill”, with a focus on IRS Spending.
See Obama's clever callback to Biden after he signs inflation bill into law
Analysis: Yes, Biden politicized inflation data. That doesn't mean he's wrong
Former IRS lawyer warns inflation bill will target key demographic
Massive social spending bill could spell disaster for 5 vulnerable Dems
Former IRS Lawyer: IRS is influenced by Washington lobbyists
Dems push ‘bold-faced lie’ that IRS will not audit those who make under 400K annually: Rep. Carlos Gimenez
CNN, MSNBC, Dems mock concerns of added IRS agents in spending bill
CNN spent some of it’s other attention real-estate on portraying DeSantis as overreaching with his powers and Joe Biden’s wins. Fox News readers are concerned about the immigration crisis and the fentanyl drug-overdose epidemic.
Is America's immigration crisis reaching a 'breaking point'?
In Top Down News, we unify and compare a multitude of mainstream perspectives that capture the majority of America’s political readership to approximate the truth. This entire newsletter is composed using a transparent and ever-improving methodology. Read how this works here. Dive deeper into the analysis for this post here, powered by AI-based Natural Language Understanding and D3-based Dynamic visualizations.
Top Stories Broken down by source:
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Trump lawyer claimed no classified material was at Mar-a-Lago
Trump considering releasing footage of FBI Mar-a-Lago search
U.S. judge reinstates North Carolina ban on late-term abortions
Michael Cohen weighs in on what Trump fears the most about the FBI search
Tyson seen in wheelchair weeks after saying his ‘expiration date is coming’
Trump denies report that FBI sought nuclear documents during Mar-a-Lago search
Washington Commanders team name and logo reveal from Fedex Field 23 Photos