Where each outlet leans, left to right

Click "Ideology" to sort far-left to far-right. The "L−R gap" is an outlet's tone toward the left minus its tone toward the right. A positive gap means it covers the left more warmly, in other words it is harder on the right, and a negative gap means the opposite.

Tone scale:Icy−1…-0.35Cold-0.35…-0.15Cool-0.15…-0.05Mixed-0.05…0.05Warm0.05…0.20Glowing0.20…+1

Outlet ▽	Ideology ▽	Mentions ▼	Score ▽	L−R gap ▽	Top frame
Le Figaro	+1.02right	2,579	Cool-0.13	harder on the left	Conflict
Franceinfo	-0.41centre-left	2,302	Cool-0.11	harder on the right	Conflict
Le Parisien	+0.1centre	1,890	Cool-0.14	harder on the right	Conflict
CNEWS	+0.96right	1,822	Cool-0.11	harder on the left	Conflict
BFMTV	+0.07centre	1,590	Cool-0.11	harder on the right	Conflict
Libération	-1.08left	1,535	Cold-0.24	harder on the right	Conflict
JDD	+0.95right	1,346	Cold-0.26	harder on the left	Conflict
20 Minutes	-0.31centre-left	988	Cold-0.17	even-handed	Conflict
Le HuffPost	-1left	968	Cold-0.26	harder on the right	Conflict
Valeurs actuelles	+1.87far right	906	Cold-0.20	harder on the left	Conflict
Le Monde	-0.71centre-left	854	Cold-0.19	harder on the right	Conflict
Le Nouvel Obs	-0.89left	672	Cold-0.23	harder on the right	Conflict
Le Point	+0.56centre-right	659	Cold-0.25	even-handed	Conflict
L'Opinion	+0.6centre-right	626	Cold-0.18	even-handed	Conflict
TF1 INFO	+0.36centre-right	612	Cool-0.10	harder on the right	Conflict
L'Humanité	-2.41far left	583	Cold-0.29	harder on the right	Conflict
La Croix	+0.13centre	459	Cool-0.07	harder on the right	Conflict
L'Express	+0.18centre	425	Cold-0.25	harder on the right	Conflict
Les Echos	+0.43centre-right	405	Cool-0.09	even-handed	Conflict
Marianne	-0.65centre-left	400	Icy-0.42	even-handed	Conflict
Challenges	-0.1centre	354	Cool-0.15	harder on the right	Conflict
Mediapart	-1.63far left	293	Icy-0.39	harder on the right	Conflict
Atlantico	+1.08right	217	Cold-0.21	even-handed	Conflict
Ouest-France	-0.16centre	153	Cool-0.12	harder on the right	Conflict
Causeur	+1.53far right	63	Cold-0.27	harder on the left	Conflict
RFI	-0.11centre	60	Cold-0.23	–	Conflict
France 24	-0.03centre	53	Cold-0.21	–	Conflict
Blast	-1.65far left	29	Icy-0.41	–	Conflict
Slate.fr	-0.53centre-left	13	Icy-0.38	–	Conflict

The signature finding

An outlet's politics predicts how it covers the other side

Correlation (ρ) = -0.79 across 25 outlets. The further right an outlet sits, the more negatively it covers the left compared with the right. The bias is in the tone.