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Who picked it up when
The Daily Wire mentioned it first (Oct 21, 2026, 1:12 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 6 hours later, least biased outlets 3 days later.
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Results
4 articles mention hostage in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hill | John Coale is exactly who we need to bring home our AmericansThe Hill The Senate must confirm John Coale as President Trump's nominee for Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs due to his track record of using transactional diplomacy to secure the release of detainees. | 0.60 | |
| New York Post | El Salvador launching military operation to rescue hostages held by Haitian gangsNew York Post “Today’s attack is nothing compared to what is coming if they do not release the four hostages alive. And do not take our words as empty threats,” El Salvador president Nayib Bukele said. | 0.70● | |
| Bloomberg | Putin Releases Hostage, Earns US Praise as HumanitarianBloomberg "Balance of Power" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Jim Gilmore, former Virginia governor, RNC chair and ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, says the US has made a dramatic reversal in its policy toward Ukraine and argues Americans deserve an explanation for the shift. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) says she would “100%” support Representative Thomas Massie's resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and says he would be “on the hot seat” when lawmakers return to Washington after the midterms. (Source: Bloomberg) | 0.80● | |
| The Daily Wire | Salvadoran President Warns Haitian Gangs Holding Hostages: ‘We Can Finish With You Too’The Daily Wire Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned Haitian gangs that his military could “finish with you too” after four Salvadoran aviation technicians were taken hostage following an ambush Sunday. The four technicians, whom Bukele described as “non-combatants,” were in Haiti as part of the United Nations-backed international Gang Suppression Force. Salvadoran officials initially said the men had ... | 0.70● |
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| Bloomberg | 0.3% | 1 | 382 |
| The Hill | 0.2% | 1 | 418 |
| New York Post | 0.1% | 1 | 900 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.4% | 1 | 238 |
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-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- <0.1%
- Right-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index +2.9: 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 match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
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