DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, Duke University
I trained GPT-5.5 to code 3,543 cable news transcripts from 2011 to 2025, about 19 million words in all. We used it to measure how often each network attacked other news outlets on air.
- Fox News
- 14.5
- MSNBC
- 61
- CNN
- 140
Minutes of programming between attacks on other outlets.
I'm now investigating the nature of those attacks: which rhetorical strategies and invocations each network relies on, and whether the networks have distinct styles. I'm the lead author of the working paper.
