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	2,657	Cool-0.14	harder on the left	Conflict
Franceinfo	-0.41centre-left	2,469	Cool-0.12	harder on the right	Conflict
Le Parisien	+0.1centre	1,970	Cool-0.14	even-handed	Conflict
CNEWS	+0.96right	1,956	Cool-0.11	harder on the left	Conflict
BFMTV	+0.07centre	1,737	Cool-0.11	even-handed	Conflict
Libération	-1.08left	1,584	Cold-0.26	harder on the right	Conflict
JDD	+0.95right	1,388	Cold-0.25	harder on the left	Conflict
20 Minutes	-0.31centre-left	1,079	Cold-0.17	even-handed	Conflict
Le HuffPost	-1left	961	Cold-0.28	harder on the right	Conflict
Valeurs actuelles	+1.87far right	943	Cold-0.18	harder on the left	Conflict
Le Monde	-0.71centre-left	897	Cold-0.19	harder on the right	Conflict
L'Opinion	+0.6centre-right	692	Cold-0.19	even-handed	Conflict
Le Point	+0.56centre-right	686	Cold-0.26	even-handed	Conflict
Le Nouvel Obs	-0.89left	684	Cold-0.26	harder on the right	Conflict
L'Humanité	-2.41far left	595	Cold-0.28	harder on the right	Conflict
TF1 INFO	+0.36centre-right	566	Cool-0.10	harder on the right	Conflict
La Croix	+0.13centre	436	Cool-0.07	harder on the right	Conflict
L'Express	+0.18centre	431	Cold-0.27	harder on the right	Conflict
Les Echos	+0.43centre-right	417	Cool-0.11	harder on the right	Conflict
Marianne	-0.65centre-left	386	Icy-0.41	even-handed	Conflict
Challenges	-0.1centre	360	Cold-0.17	harder on the right	Conflict
Mediapart	-1.63far left	355	Icy-0.38	harder on the right	Conflict
Atlantico	+1.08right	227	Cold-0.22	even-handed	Conflict
Ouest-France	-0.16centre	219	Cool-0.12	harder on the right	Conflict
Causeur	+1.53far right	69	Cold-0.26	harder on the left	Conflict
RFI	-0.11centre	62	Cold-0.23	–	Conflict
France 24	-0.03centre	52	Cold-0.23	–	Conflict
Blast	-1.65far left	28	Icy-0.43	–	Conflict
Slate.fr	-0.53centre-left	15	Icy-0.40	–	Conflict

The signature finding

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

Correlation (ρ) = -0.80 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.