A system and method for analyzing news content is provided. The method includes monitoring a plurality of third party websites; selecting a first news article from a third party website of the plurality of third party website for analysis; analyzing the first news article for a journalistic distortion; assigning a numerical value to the journalistic distortion in each instance of detection of the journalistic distortion; calculating an aggregate numerical value of the journalistic distortion based on a total of the assigned numerical values within the first news article; determining a rating for the first news article using the aggregate numerical value, wherein the rating indicates a level of journalistic distortion contained in the first news article; and providing the rating of the first news article to a user computing device.
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