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September 4, 2026
Plane Carrying DHS Secretary Mullin Makes Emergency Landing
A reader of OAN would not learn that NBC News reported the Coast Guard jet carrying Mullin diverted to Reagan National without injuries.
Elliot Page Says Transition Has Made Acting Roles Harder to Get
Elliot Page's claim that no offers followed The Odyssey is on Fox News and other right-leaning sites only. Left-leaning coverage has not carried it.
Canada retaliates against US tariffs with counter-duties
Only CNBC reports Lutnick tying the collapse to Canadian by-elections, a political motive The Guardian live blog never mentions.
Patagonia Sues Trump Over Shrinking Utah National Monuments
The Guardian covers the Patagonia suit as if the Antiquities Act already forbids shrinking a monument; only Daily Caller reports that Congress's researchers found the statute silent on that power.
DOJ Backs OpenAI in Copyright Lawsuit With New York Times
A reader of The Verge would not know the DOJ told the court that limits on training would "threaten national security," a line Breitbart prints from the same brief.
USPS Builds Mail In Ballot System Amid Legal Challenges
The New York Times reports election officials warning that a USPS portal is already fueling confusion that could disenfranchise voters. Right-leaning coverage of that system does not exist.
Stephen A. Smith warns Hasan Piker will hurt Democrats in midterms
Carville calling Piker an "idiot" and Smith's midterms warning appear only in right-leaning write-ups from Breitbart and Fox News. Left-leaning coverage has not carried the remarks.
Widespread Outage Hits Major AI Services Including ChatGPT
Left-leaning outlets carried no outage story at all, so their readers would have missed the New York Post account that ChatGPT and Claude failed Thursday, with Anthropic still working on a fix after 10:49 a.m.
Pentagon Mandates Testosterone Screenings for Troops 30 and Older
A Fox News reader would not know the Pentagon had already pulled the troop testosterone order that The Hill treated as the news.
Judge dismisses DOJ suit over California transgender athlete policy
Left-leaning outlets have not reported the dismissal at all. Their readers would not know the DOJ's California sports suit died over notice and $44 billion, with Title IX still uninterpreted by that court.
Trump Downplays Iran Peace Deal as Conflict Escalates
The Hill treated the Iran fighting as a midterm and 33-approval story and never reported Trump downplaying a peace deal as Iran attacked U.S. allies in the Gulf.
Iran Launches Missile and Drone Attacks on Kuwait
Nobody on the right has reported that Kuwait was intercepting Iranian drones after Trump said the war would not last long, and the Vance-Rubio election clock appears only in CNBC.
US Sinks Narco Refueling Station in Pacific
Fox News placed the without-incident sinking inside a campaign it counted at 227 deaths; readers of left-leaning outlets would not know U.S. forces boarded and sank the boat at all.
DOJ Orders States to Report Undocumented Immigrants for Funding
Fox News covers the funding threat and the statewide reporting mandate, but only the Guardian reports that the same DOJ opinion also said states cannot wait for a formal immigration finding before they must report someone.
Lindsay Clancy Trial Spotlights Postpartum Psychosis Care
You could follow right-leaning outlets and never learn that the New York Times is treating the Clancy killings as a postpartum-psychosis case a jury cannot fairly try.
North Carolina Mails Midterm Ballots Amid Trump Mail Voting Fight
ABC News reported North Carolina mailing midterm ballots Friday while withholding voter lists from the Postal Service during the court fight, a sequence right-leaning outlets have not reported.
Trump Becomes First Living President on US Currency in a Century
A reader of Breitbart would learn the Trump dollars sold out as anniversary coins; a reader of ABC News would also learn the design never went before the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.
Trump's Economic Pressure Campaign Against Iran Includes New Sanctions
Read Breitbart and the Iran squeeze is Bessent ending the regime; read The Washington Post or CNBC and it is a tighter noose around Iran's economy plus a president who does not want a deal.
Trump Administration Seeks Supreme Court Ruling on Mail-In Ballot Rules
The Guardian reports the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a judge's block on USPS mail-ballot rules a whistleblower tied to "scores of mail ballots never being sent," but it never says what those rules require, and right-leaning outlets have not covered the fight.
Trump Administration Hunts for Noncitizen Voter Fraud
The New York Times is alone on the story and ties the hunt to a tens of thousands claim it labels "without evidence," yet never says whether anyone has been found.
New Details Emerge in Unsolved Burning Man Murder
Fox News is reporting that Burning Man's first known homicide still has no arrest; left-leaning coverage has not told readers the killing happened.
Los Angeles Angels Being Sold for Record 4 Billion
CNBC's $4 billion Angels sale includes a sports network that Fox News says the team does not have, so the two audiences are not reading the same deal.
Record Number of Americans See Widespread Government Corruption
The Hill reported a record 89 percent who see widespread corruption but not the Democratic surge after Trump returned, and right-leaning outlets did not report the poll.
Trump Floats Renaming Strait of Hormuz After Himself
Only CNBC recorded Trump saying a Hormuz rename was "just thrown out there," and right-leaning outlets had not reported the episode at all.
Trump Bids Harry and Meghan Good Riddance
Every side has Trump pleased the Sussexes left. Only the Daily Wire has him saying Meghan was "terribly disrespectful" to the Queen.
What to Watch in Broadcom Upcoming Earnings
Right-leaning outlets have not reported the earnings. CNBC never says whether the Marvell deal reduces Google's orders, even as the CEO still promises tens of billions of dollars of processors a year to that customer.
Oil Heir Sid Bass Dumped Partner of 10 Years Suit Claims
Anyone who skipped the New York Post would not know Oona Sperr has taken Sid Bass to federal court for at least $400 million. Left-leaning outlets have not carried the case.
Anthropic Remains on Pentagon Blacklist Despite Lutnick Comments
Lutnick said Anthropic has done what the administration asked; the New York Post never printed that sentence, and left-leaning outlets printed nothing on the reset at all.
Southwest to Debut Airport Lounges in Four Cities
The New York Post never mentions the seven extra lounges CNBC says Southwest already plans to build. Skip that figure and the whole project looks like four rooms.
Friday The 13th Legend Dead At 86
The Washington Post dispatched the Friday the 13th screenwriter in two sentences and never mentioned his son's announcement, which Daily Caller printed.
Wheel of Fortune Announcer Jim Thornton Suspended
Sony suspended Jim Thornton from Wheel of Fortune over a May airline complaint his lawyer says police dropped after five minutes, a story left-leaning outlets have not carried.
Dolly Parton Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Vandalized
Left-leaning outlets have not reported the vandalism of Dolly Parton's Hollywood star. Fox News placed the scratches days after she was laid to rest and mentioned a Friday polish.
Penn State Fraternity Cocaine Ring Suspects Face Judge
If you only read right-leaning news, you have not seen the NBC News report that a judge set $250,000 bail for the man accused of running a Penn State fraternity cocaine ring.
What 9/11 Still Teaches Us 25 Years Later
The 25th anniversary is being covered as a memory fight only on the right. Breitbart is leading with a poll that 13 percent of Democrats say 9/11 already gets too much focus, and left-leaning outlets have not answered it.
PSA Amazon Shopping AI Can Tell If Message Is Scam
Shoppers who rely on right-leaning news would not know Alexa can now vet Amazon messages at all, and even Verge readers would not know 360,000 people a year already ask customer service the same thing.
OpenAI New Model Needs More Safety Measures
The Astra safety delay never reached right-leaning coverage, and even on the left The Hill never mentions the unmonitorable-architecture scare that The Verge treated as the story.
Uber to Cut Thousands of Jobs in Major Restructuring
CNBC can walk you through Uber's 10 percent cut without mentioning Waymo. The New York Post treats that rivalry as why the jobs are going.
OpenAI Accused of Aiding Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting in Lawsuits
The Verge casts OpenAI as having aided the Tumbler Ridge attack by leaving a deactivation loophole open; the New York Post casts the same case as a failure to call the police.
Kennedy Center Removing Landmark Sculpture
The Hill says the Kennedy Center is taking down Blue, a 24-foot aluminum sculpture, and right-leaning outlets have not reported the removal.
The Truth About American Food Safety
Right-leaning outlets have not reported the CDC's 17,180 confirmed cyclospora cases, so that figure lives only in the Atlantic.
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