Keyword topic
3 articles from 3 news outlets, Oct 6 to Nov 4
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention secession, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned secession, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
CBS News mentioned it first (Oct 19, 2026, 1:17 PM EDT). No left-leaning outlet mentioned it. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source that mentioned secession, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention secession, Oct 6 to Nov 4, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| CBS News | 0.1% | 1 | 1836 |
| Reason | 0.2% | 1 | 431 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 0.4% | 1 | 238 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention secession, Oct 6 to Nov 4, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning0 of 15 sources
- 0.0%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +4.1: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention secession. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as secession, Oct 6 to Nov 4: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features secession most, per source.
- CBS NewsWhy Alberta voters are weighing separating from Canada
- ReasonUpdate on Canada's Two Secession Movements
- The Wall Street JournalOpinion | Voting to Escape From Illinois
All articles
Every article that mentions secession, Oct 6 to Nov 4. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | Voting to Escape From IllinoisThe Wall Street Journal | 0.80 | |
| Reason | Update on Canada's Two Secession MovementsReason | 0.70● | |
| CBS News | Why Alberta voters are weighing separating from CanadaCBS News | 0.90 |