San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle has a Left AllSides Media Bias Rating.
May 2022 Independent Review
A May 2022 Independent Review by an AllSides reviewer on the right confirmed the Left rating, though a reviewer on the left argued Lean Left was a better rating for the outlet. The reviewers noted that on the Chronicle's Politics page, there were indicators of a left bias:
- Word choices typically favored on the left, such as "restorative justice programs", "abortion rights", "reproductive healthcare" (to describe abortion), "pro-choice activists" (instead of "pro-abortion," the phrase typically used by conservatives); there was a positive description of pro-choice marchers: "The demonstration drew thousands of people, who were united in their desire to elevate the national conversation around reproductive health care."
- Negative coverage of anti-abortion activists (but no mention of actions by pro-choice activists that had made local San Francisco news in recent weeks): "Antiabortion activists ‘barged’ into UCSF women’s clinic, recorded patients and stalked a doctor,..."
- Negative coverage of people who didn't want the covid vaccine: "S.F. firefighters who refused vaccines fought their firings with misinformation and conspiracy theories..."
- Positive coverage of a "New Deal ballot proposal"
- Critical coverage of a company that "made millions more in profit than allowed"
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San Francisco residents abandoned the city in droves during the first eight months of the pandemic, but they generally did not venture very far, according to new data from the United States Postal Service.
The postal service analysis of change of address requests during an eight-month period between March and November shows that while the influx of new residents coming into the city remained constant between 2019 and 2020, the number of households leaving skyrocketed by more than 77 percent, or roughly 35,000 households — from 45,263 in 2019 to 80,371 in 2020.