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Rhetorical techniques in the news, October 28, 2026
11 articles, drawn evenly from outlets rated left, center, and right. Each one lists the rhetorical techniques our model found — not a judgment of whether it's true.
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⚠️ This day is not evenly balanced: left 4, center 2, right 5. We had fewer articles available from left and center-rated outlets than from the others — usually because their feeds had already rotated the day's stories out by the time we built this page.
The Strange Case of the Two Sullivans | National Review
Alaska's ballot has two candidates named Dan Sullivan: the sitting Republican senator and another man.
Ballsy Heckler Hits Trump Right In One Of His Sorest Of All Sore Spots
A heckler yelled an insult about the ballroom at Trump's Mississippi rally on Monday night.
Trump To Unveil Plan Curbing Oil Drilling Regulations in Action That Could Save Americans $45 Billion in Energy Costs
Trump is set to announce an EPA proposal easing Biden-era methane rules on oil and gas drilling.
Trump hints at post-midterm strikes on Iran: 'You'll see Iran in a couple of weeks'
Trump told a Lubbock, Texas rally 'You'll see Iran in a couple of weeks', which the article reads as a hint the war will resume.
Ex-Hunter Biden pal who testified against him engaged to pregnant reality star Savannah Chrisley
Jason Galanis was identified as the man engaged to reality star Savannah Chrisley, who announced a pregnancy and engagement.
Sources: Grand jury declines to indict former White House aide - UPI.com
A federal grand jury reportedly declined to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Why James Comey is getting charged again
The Justice Department filed a two-count criminal information charging James Comey a third time, on Monday's news.
Fired MAGA Mouthpiece Rips Hypocrite Fox Star Over Ambush
Katie Zacharia, former White House press secretary, discussed her Hannity interview on Newsmax.
Israel election: Exit polls show no clear winner
Exit polls show Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition tied or narrowly apart, neither reaching 61 of 120 seats.
EXCLUSIVE–Paxton’s Historic Settlement with TX Children’s Hospital Leads to 1st Detransition Clinic
Texas Children's Hospital opened a detransition clinic, a requirement of a settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton's office.
How these articles were chosen
- Sources are a fixed, version-controlled list of outlets, not picked per day.
- Equal numbers are taken from left-, center-, and right-rated outlets, using the AllSides media bias ratings — those labels are theirs, not ours.
- Within an outlet we take the most recent articles from its politics or world section feed. No human picks the interesting ones.
- Live blogs, podcasts, video and photo galleries are skipped — they contain too little text to analyze.
The full source list
Ratings below are AllSides' own labels (retrieved 2026-09-09), not ours. We group Left and Lean Left together, and Lean Right and Right together, which balances direction but not intensity — the exact ratings are here so you can judge that yourself.
- Left: The Guardian (US) (Left), NPR (Lean Left), Vox (Left), Mother Jones (Left), The Guardian Tech (Left), Guardian Science (Left), NPR Business (Lean Left), NPR Technology (Lean Left), Guardian Opinion (Left), Mother Jones Environment (Left), HuffPost (Left), Slate (Left), The Intercept (Left), The Nation (Left), Salon (Left), The New Republic (Left), Common Dreams (Left), The Daily Beast (Left), The Atlantic (Left), Politico (Lean Left), ABC News (Lean Left), CBS News (Lean Left), NBC News (Lean Left), Al Jazeera (Lean Left), Axios (Lean Left), PBS NewsHour (Lean Left), Semafor (Lean Left)
- Center: BBC News (Center), Christian Science Monitor (Center), The Hill (Center), UPI (Center), Reason (Center), Ars Technica (Center), BBC Business (Center), CSM Environment (Center), Reason — Volokh Conspiracy (Center), Christian Science Monitor Commentary (Center), UPI Voices (Center), Bloomberg (Center), Straight Arrow News (Center), NewsNation (Center), Deutsche Welle (Center)
- Right: Fox News (Right), New York Post (Right), Washington Examiner (Lean Right), New York Post Business (Right), Fox Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Opinion (Lean Right), New York Post Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Business (Lean Right), New York Post Opinion (Right), Washington Times (Lean Right), National Review (Lean Right), The Federalist (Right), The Daily Wire (Right), The Daily Caller (Right), Washington Free Beacon (Right), Breitbart (Right), TheBlaze (Right), Just the News (Lean Right), RedState (Right)
Who owns each outlet, and every article we've analyzed from it: the outlets.
Limitations worth knowing
- Semblen detects rhetorical techniques, not left/right tilt.
- The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate language — particularly military reporting and opinion writing in the author's own voice.
- We list the techniques found. A technique flag is not a claim that an article is false, and we don't rank outlets against each other.
- Articles where the model found nothing are not published — there'd be nothing on the page.
- Each article is analyzed once, at the time shown on its page. Outlets sometimes update articles after publication, so a quoted phrase may no longer appear in the current version.
- Findings may include language an outlet is quoting rather than asserting — a politician's attack line, or an opponent's own words. We flag technique wherever it appears, including inside quotations.
- We link to each original article and quote only short phrases as evidence.