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A Daily Update on Bias in the News

It is well known that there is bias across all news media.  To date, tribalism has led many folks to cancel news seen to be too partisan.  Some folks refuse to watch Fox News or News Max because of the apparent conservative bias.  Many conservatives refuse to listen to CNN or other "mainstream" media which is believed to be biased or "fake news." My purpose here is to start a regular survey of the most popular web news sources.  Web news is selected since stories are available for anyone to cross check.  I don't know if I will be able to do this every day but I will attempt to do this on a regular basis. For purposes of this survey, I am selecting from the 50 most popular new web sites which I am taking from this source: https://pressgazette.co.uk/most-popular-websites-news-us-monthly/ My goal in this survey to identify the following topics: News stories not covered (news stories prominently displayed in one site, not displayed in others) Misleading headlines (s