The Shaping the Narrative Project looks at the types of bias displayed and the amount of coverage on Politics to determine how political bias affected media coverage of US Politics.

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This is an opinion from the Center. As the remaining Israeli hostages are released, our reaction should be a loud and exuberant cheer for those brave individuals and their families. If the Gaza War does finally come to an end after two long and horrible years, we should cheer again—just as loudly and just as enthusiastically. But right now, three cheers might still be a bit premature. While last week’s diplomatic breakthroughs are extraordinarily positive news, and while the freedom finally to be enjoyed by the last few dozen captives held by Hamas is a justifiable cause for unrestrained celebration, the path to anything but temporary and tenuous peace is still a maddeningly lengthy and difficult one. Donald Trump is receiving deserved credit for bullying both Israeli and Hamas leaders to the partial agreement they have finally achieved. But even the American president’s strong-arm tactics still only got the two sides some of the way to the ultimate objective. Let’s…

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The American mental healthcare system struggles with deep inaccessibility. While the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) estimates that one in five adults and one in six youth experience mental illness, approximately 28 million people receive no treatment at all.

The Shaping the Narrative series aims to detail how media bias affects coverage of select topics. This blog details how media outlets covered immigration and the types of bias used to shape narratives on the topic.

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and on Monday Israel released 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and Hamas released the 20 remaining Israeli Hostages.President Donald Trump touted the deal during a tour of the region, calling it “the historic dawn of a new Middle East.” The ceasefire received bipartisan praise, though voices on the left tended to be more hesitant about the likelihood of lasting peace in the region. There have been reports of violence in the region despite the deal.A writer for The Guardian (Left bias) argued, “Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza demands atonement from Palestinians for the horrific acts of 7 October, not from Israel for the barbarity that followed… It is riddled with ambiguities, devoid of timetables, arbiters or consequences for inevitable eventual violations. If all goes according to plan – if the deal’s vagueness is not exploited to torpedo it; unavoidable clashes over subsequent phases do not get in the way of the first stage; Arab and Muslim states …

Spanish language media is different to English language media. This analysis compares these groups to assert how language may influence coverage and narratives on Immigration.

Denise Bacon, a former therapist who suffers from Parkinson’s, underwent four hours of surgery. Source: Parkinson’s patient plays clarinet during brain surgery Very cool…

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