Common Dreams Media Bias



Identity and self-presentation: The outlet explicitly brands itself as "Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations" and rejects corporate advertising     .

This self-label is observable across nearly every item, so its "progressive opinion" identity is declared, not inferred     .

Topic selection (observable): Coverage concentrates on   the US-Iran war, framed in headlines and ledes as an "illegal war" or "war of choice" in at least a dozen items         ;   ICE/immigration enforcement, framed as "deadly," "xenophobic," and abusive         ;   Gaza/Israel, with "genocide" asserted in the outlet's own voice         ;   AI regulation and tech-oligarch critiques         ; and   anti-corporate economics—private jets   , Medicare Advantage   , data centers   , crypto   .

Wording/framing patterns: Recurring techniques include (a) asserting contested legal conclusions as settled fact—"illegal war" appears unqualified in headlines       , and genocide is stated as fact     ; (b) one-sided sourcing—many stories are built almost entirely on critics' quotes with the administration's response omitted or buried         ; (c) loaded, sensational headlines: "Deranged Trump Posts AI Slop"   , "Trump Did It!"   , "Murder Spree at Sea"   , "Vance Is a Dirtbag"   , "Tyrant Trump"   ; (d) editorializing in ledes       ; (e) embedded fundraising appeals that blend news with donor appeals against "billionaires" and "oligarchs"       .

Counterexamples and reliability: Some items show visible sourcing discipline—named reports, quantified data, and administration denials are sometimes included       .

The outlet also opposes RFK Jr. and vaccine misinformation   , and the AI-safety alarmism targets corporations, not only Republicans     .

However, factual-reliability signals are mixed: contested characterizations ("illegal," "genocide," "murder") are stated in the publisher's own voice rather than attributed       , and response-bias coverage omits defenses in many items     .

Values (evidenced): Highest values appear to be anti-war/dovish restraint     , civil liberties and immigrant rights       , and anti-corporate/anti-oligarch economic populism       .

Lowest values, based on what is absent or subordinated: balance/neutral framing (evaluative labels in news voice)     ; benefit-of-the-doubt toward administration rationales (fraud, dual-use screening, national-security claims treated as pretext)       ; and scrupulous hedging of contested legal claims     .

AI authorship: No direct evidence either way. Headlines show human-editorial-style voice and idiosyncratic sarcasm     ; consistent boilerplate insertions are structural, not proof of AI. Propaganda techniques are observable—loaded language, one-side source selection, appeal to fear     —but these are standard advocacy-journalism devices, consistent with its stated progressive-opinion mission     .

Helium Bias: The sample is skewed toward high-conflict, high-bias articles (0 social shares, selected records), so neutral pieces the outlet publishes may be underrepresented.

I cannot verify underlying facts, outlet identity beyond self-description, or stories not published.

AI-authorship and propaganda judgments are probabilistic inferences from wording, not verified.

Hidden-assessment labels within records were weighed but are themselves analyst judgments.

Automated source summary · Updated September 24, 2026 · Not human reviewed. Check recent article panels for claim-level evidence when available.




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Common Dreams Bias Profile

Weighted source-level patterns from recent analyzed coverage. Open recent articles below to inspect score-specific evidence and limitations when available.

🔵 Liberal <—> Conservative 🔴-34

🧢 Populist <—> Elitist 🎩-28

🗽 Libertarian <—> Authoritarian 🚔-10

🗞️ Objective <—> Subjective 👁️ 18

🚨 Sensational100

📉 Bearish <—> Bullish 📈-11

😩 Pessimistic <—> Optimistic 🌞-25

💡 Boring <—> Interesting24

📝 Prescriptive52

🕊️ Dovish <—> Hawkish 🦁-11

😨 Fearful46

📞 Begging the Question14

💭 Opinion100

🗳 Political70

Oversimplification38

🏛️ Appeal to Authority36

🍼 Immature16

🔄 Circular Reasoning6

👀 Covering Responses32

😢 Victimization40

😤 Overconfidence40

🗑️ Spam7

🔒 Ideological100

🏴 Anti-establishment <—> Pro-establishment 📺-24

📏📏 Double Standard40

❌ Low Credibility <—> High Credibility ✅18

🧠 Rational <—> Irrational 🤪-7

🤑 Advertising19

💔 Low Integrity <—> High Integrity ❤️18

🪨 Low Intelligence <—> High Intelligence 🦉44

👺 Marxism6

✊ Woke100

🔪 Cruel18

🎭 Virtue Signaling100

🔺 Conspiracy20

🐐 Scapegoating22

🤡 Hypocrisy16

🦊 Anti-Corporate <—> Pro-Corporate 👔-27

👤 Individualist <—> Collectivist 👥9

🎲 Speculation34

🐍 Manipulative100

Subtle dimensions

🗣️ Gossip4

🤖 Written by AI0

💣 Terrorism4

🤑 Fraud2

🔍 Truth-seeking <—> Delusion 🌀0

❤️‍🔥 Suicidal Empathy0

🔬 Scientific <—> Superstitious 🔮-4

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Average social shares per article 0



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