How outlets cover Burgess Owens R · UT-4 · Feb 6 – Feb 11, 2026
Burgess Owens Responds to Trump's Truth Social Post
So far two center outlets have covered this. No left- or right-leaning outlet has picked it up yet.
Lead article · Deseret News · CENTERRep. Burgess Owens on Trump's Truth Social post: 'We all make mistakes'Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Owens in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Owens’s record.
After President Donald Trump’s account shared a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama with ape imagery, Rep. Burgess Owens first defended Trump as a good man who makes mistakes, then called the imagery offensive and inappropriate. Other Republicans also criticized the post.
Outlets by lean
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How outlets portrayed Owens, by side
3 ARTICLESEach article counts once, however many sites carried it. Sides are each outlet’s published lean. How portrayal is read
Left: 0 favorable, 0 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral. Center: 0 favorable, 1 critical, 0 mixed, 2 neutral. Right: 0 favorable, 0 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral.
When each side covered it
FEB 6 – 11Articles per day by side. FEB 6: Left 0, Center 2, Right 0. FEB 7: Left 0, Center 0, Right 0. FEB 8: Left 0, Center 0, Right 0. FEB 9: Left 0, Center 0, Right 0. FEB 10: Left 0, Center 0, Right 0. FEB 11: Left 0, Center 1, Right 0.
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