About Omitted

Throughout the day, Omitted gathers new reporting from 39 news sources across the political spectrum and groups the articles covering the same underlying story. Sports, entertainment, and lifestyle content is filtered out — this site covers politics, policy, economics, and the politicized side of business, tech, crime, and public health.

For each story, the left-, center-, and right-leaning coverage is read in full and distilled into the sections you see on a story page: a neutral What happened, faithful summaries of The Left View and The Right View, a balanced synthesis (Our Take), and the centerpiece — Unpacked, a comparative audit of what each side's coverage omits.

Stories covered by only one side get a Blindspot badge — the silence is reported as a fact, without guessing at motives.

Every story also carries a Sourcing check — counts of how the coverage is attributed, with the terms defined on the page. On the record means an article cites a source by name for the story's main claim: a person, or an institution speaking officially. Primary evidence means it cites a record you could check yourself — a filing, ruling, dataset, report, recording, official statement, or market data; a quote is not a document. Credits another outlet means the article says the story comes from someone else's reporting. Unnamed sources means the main claim rests on people who are not identified. An on-record denial is a named person or institution saying the claim is not true; it is on the record but is not confirmation. Criticizing or dissenting from a decision is not a denial — a dissenting judge is a named source. Opinion, analysis and video pieces are not counted, an article republished under a new headline is counted once, and a source is listed once however the articles spell its name. The counts cover every article listed on the story page, including those from the story's first hours. When the coverage cites unnamed sources and no counted article names anyone or cites a document, the story gets an Anonymous sources only badge; when every article traces back to one outlet, a Single origin badge. These are counts of attribution, not judgments of truth — anonymously sourced stories are often right, and the badge disappears the moment a follow-up puts someone on the record. Each source on the page is annotated so you can check the counts yourself.

Every story page lists all source articles with links, so every claim we make can be checked against the coverage it came from. That's not a courtesy — it's the product's discipline: if you can't check it, we shouldn't say it.

Unpacked makes only checkable claims about the coverage we read: a fact present in one side's articles and absent from the other's, divergent word choices quoted side by side, an emphasis gap, or a question none of the articles answers.

It deliberately does not: ascribe motives to an omission (we report the gap, you judge why it exists), forecast what happens next, or take a side. Both sides get audited with equal energy — and when one side's coverage is simply more complete, we say so plainly, because that's a finding, not bias.

We read a sample, not everything: for each story we gather coverage from major outlets' feeds and analyze a balanced selection of each side's articles. Omission claims are scoped to that selection — "absent from the right-leaning coverage we read" — never a claim about everything an outlet has published.

Bias ratings are editorial judgments made by us, reflecting our read of each outlet's current editorial practice — they intentionally differ from third-party charts in places. We publish the full list so you can discount our judgments accordingly:

Left New York Times, CNN, CNBC, NBC News, Washington Post, ABC News, Politico, The Hill, HuffPost, NPR, BBC, Bloomberg, Vox, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, The Intercept, The Atlantic, The Verge, Business Insider

Center CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Axios, NewsNation, Christian Science Monitor, TechCrunch

Right Fox News, New York Post, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Daily Wire, Newsmax, The Federalist, Daily Caller, OAN, National Review, Fox Business

Yes, the list leans numerically left — that reflects the media landscape we ingest, not a preference. Story analyses balance the two sides' article counts before the coverage is read, so one side's volume doesn't drown out the other.

Omitted's analyses are produced by an automated system and reviewed for quality — no newsroom, no political organization. The same rules run on every story, whichever side the findings land on, and every claim links to the source articles it came from, so you can always check our work.

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