The chart that follows visualizes the mean number of headlines each site produces per pull.
Of interest is the sheer volume of headlines for Fox in comparison to all others, with Washington Post then Breitbart in tow. OAN, NBC, then NPR had the fewest headlines.
These values can act as a basline to the later analysis around callouts in regards to other news sites.
What follows is a display of the nummber of times a source has a callout of other news sites, the sites they mention.
Breitbart, the New York Post, and Fox news lead with the most mentions of another news site per day. NPR, ABS, and CBS have the lowest number of mentions of another news site.
Breitbart and spends a considerable amount of attention on CNN and NBC, neither of which return the attention. Fox gives a similar level of attention, and does receive reciprocal attention from CNN and NBC.
A next step in analysis here would be a ratio of overall headlines to this value. That could provide an even better picture to the weight of focus beyond mentions.
What follows is a display of the 5 sources with the most callouts of other news sites as a pie chart by the sites they mention.
What follows are the number of times a news site has a mention by another news source with differentiation by news site.
CNN is the site most frequently the target of another site's callout. Breitbart, Fox, and New York Post make up the bulk of their mentions.
Fox had the next most callouts. New York Post, then CNN, then Washington Post were the sites with the most mentions of Fox.
NBC had the third most callouts. Breitbart, Fox, then New York post let the number of mentions.
It was as suprise to see how much effort the New York Post puts into the mentions of other sites despite the reciprocal attention.
What follows are the box plots for the sentiment of the headlines where a news source mentions another news source.
The first series shows those where the source mentions another new site.
The second series shows those where the news site has a mention in the headline.
It is of interest to see that Reuters, Washington Post, and NBC all trend so positive in their mentions of other news sources. This is carries special interest in that NBC and Washington Post both mention Fox most frequently.
AP as a target is also of interest. It is frequently a source for other news sources to report. Their box plot seems to indicate a more neutral treatment by other news sources in terms of sentiment. In contrast, Reuters, another new source with frequent sitations, trends more negative.
The blue dot in the chart that follows visualizes the mean compound sentiment for headlines for each site.
NPR had the lowest mean compound sentiment. Reuters had the highest mean compound sentiment.
The red square in the chart that follows is the mean compound sentiment where a news source is the target of another. For example, where a news source mentions ABC.
The AP mean sentiment was of interest. When you consider it's distribution as a target in the box plot, it's noteworthy that CBS, NPR, and OAN score so low. In comparison to the means for those sources, we see those average for NPR align. CBS and OAN show lower than their overall means.
The sentiment of Reuters mentions trends lowers than the overall mean with most new sources.
The Washington Post callouts show a different story. Breitbart and Fox show much lower than their overall means when they mention Washington Post.
A future enhancement to show the number of values the mean includes would help better describe the drivers for certain results. For example, even sources with no mentions of a target show on the report below.