Mainstream media gave Biden student loan bailout overwhelmingly positive coverage: analysis

U.S. newspapers reporting on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program were strongly biased in favor of the administration’s bailout, according to a report released Tuesday that reviewed more than eight dozen articles on the topic.

“An analysis of 100 news stories from five major newspapers regarding President Joe Biden’s proposal to unilaterally ‘forgive’ $400 billion in student loan debt finds a strong pro-administration bias in the coverage,” education policy researchers Frederick Hess and Caitlyn Aversman wrote in the report.

The authors of the AEI analysis examined samples of news coverage of the loan forgiveness program between May 1 and Nov. 8, 2022 by five major newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Washington Post.