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New York Post mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 3:01 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 5 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
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6 articles mention Matthew Perry in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
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| New York Post | Matthew Perry Was “Fighting For His Life” During ‘Friends’ Reunion, And More Heartbreaking Details From Netflix’s ‘The One About Matthew Perry’New York Post "He was really scared," said Perry's sister, in the new Netflix documentary series. | 0.80● | |
| New York Post | Inside Matthew Perry’s ‘struggle’ ahead of the 2021 ‘Friends’ reunionNew York Post Family and friends say the late actor was "struggling" ahead of his final TV appearance at the 2021 "Friends" reunion special. | 0.95● | |
| The Guardian | The One About Matthew Perry review – the star of one of TV’s biggest ever shows gets a loving tributeThe Guardian This intimate, warm, thoughtful three-parter about the Friends actor speaks to his friends, family and ex-girlfriends – and their adoration for him is overwhelming “God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous.” So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning in LA, enjoying the partying and the friendships but struggling to find work. Many have offered up such a fervent wish, of course; few have had both sides of it fulfilled in such a spectacular way as the man who became part of one of the most successful sitcoms in television history and who died after relapsing into drug addiction in 2023 at the age of just 54. The three-part, three-hour documentary – titled, perhaps inevitably, The One About Matthew Perry – charts the whole of the actor’s rise and fall. It is an exhaustive but never (quite) exhausting film. Three hours is a long time, for sure, to tell what is in essence a sad but very simple tale, and some tiny trims could undoubtedly have been made, but it avoids tedium because of the quality of the interviews and the interviewees. The latter include his half-sister Mia and his best friends since his first days in LA, Roger Castillo and David Pressman. They all talk about the brother and the man with such love and such despair at the addictions he could not beat that it becomes at points not just a moving tribute to Perry but also to the thousands upon thousands of addicts and the people who love and despair of them, but whose stories don’t make international headlines. Continue reading... | 0.90● | |
| TIME | The One About Matthew Perry Is More Than the Typical Saga of Fame and AddictionTIME This three-part Netflix doc takes an honest, empathetic look at the troubled 'Friends' star and the addiction that dominated his adult life. | 0.90● | |
| New York Post | All the biggest revelations from Netflix’s Matthew Perry documentaryNew York Post The Netflix documentary covers the "Friends" star's life, career, addiction struggles and untimely death. | 0.90● | |
| New York Post | Matthew Perry’s ‘harrowing’ private funeral detailed for the first time in new docNew York Post The "Friends" actor's family is providing new heartbreaking details about his private funeral following his tragic 2023 death. | 0.90● |
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| TIME | 1.5% | 1 | 66 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 657 |
| New York Post | 0.5% | 4 | 828 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, 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-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
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