President Trump announced last week that he would end trade negotiations with Canada after the province of Ontario aired TV ads in the U.S. that included video of former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. Our team analyzed four articles and two videos published by the media about Trump’s announcement, Canada’s commercial, and the Reagan video itself.

The most balanced coverage from our content set came from an article by CNBC and a video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show, “About That With Andrew Chang.” Both received a bias rating of “middle/balanced.”

The CNBC article lays out the facts of Trump’s announcement and the TV ad, which aired during the first two games of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It includes comments from both President Trump, who said the video was misleading, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said the commercial achieved its goal to reach a large U.S. audience. Analysts gave the article a reliability rating of “mix of fact reporting and analysis.”

The CBC video features host Andrew Chang breaking down how the Reagan video was “selectively edited” but not “fake,” as Trump accused. Chang says the ad selectively chooses and reorganizes Reagan’s words to make a point, and he shares that the Reagan Foundation also says the ad “misrepresents” Reagan’s 1987 speech. But Chang concludes that the ad fairly describes Reagan’s overall message about tariffs — he wasn’t a fan of them generally — and Chang believes the ad won’t stop trade talks between the U.S. and Canada. Analysts placed this video in the “analysis” category of reliability.

An article from Blaze Media also was scored as “analysis” but received a slightly lower bias score, in the category of “skews right.” The article focuses on Trump’s reaction to the ad when he accused Canada of interfering in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case regarding tariffs. The article lists several ways the Reagan video was edited. Analysts found the article slightly favors Trump’s opinion about the TV commercial, leading to a “skews right” bias rating.

An article from Zero Hedge and a video from The David Pakman Show were both found to be “opinion” reporting with converse bias scores. The article focuses on the fact that the TV ads, which the article calls “Canada’s propaganda ad campaign,” were pulled on Monday following pushback from Trump, stating “America’s neighbors to the north screwed around and found out the consequences …” when Trump threatened to end all trade talks with Canada. The article describes Ford’s announcement to suspend the ads as “Canada bends the knee,” which is “not a good look for globalist Carney” (referring to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney). The article earned a bias score of “strong right.

With a headline of “Canada sick of Trump, says ‘bye-bye’ to USA,” the video features the host, David Pakman, declaring, “Canada’s done with the United States.” Pakman plays video clips of a recent speech by Prime Minister Carney in which he declares that “this decades long process of an ever closer economic relationship with the United States is now over.” Pakman says that “Trump doesn’t respect democracy,” which is why the U.S. finds itself “tighter with dictators and authoritarians” such as Vladimir Putin while it destroys relationships with our “Western democratic allies” like Canada. The consistent criticism of Trump, and the host’s opinion that “This is not good for the United States,” led to the video’s bias rating of “strong left.”

The lowest-rated reporting from our content set came from an article by Wonkette. Even before reading the article the bias is apparent, as it features a .gif of President Trump’s head on a child who is laying on the ground having a tantrum. The headline reads: “Canada Does A Mean And Nasty To Donald Trump By Quoting Ronald Reagan Accurately.” The article describes Trump as “America’s pissbaby president” and “President Brain Damage,” among other insults. It describes the Reagan ad as “pretty effective” and “not wrong,” calling a statement from The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute “bullshit.” Analysts noted the frequent insults and misleading conclusions in the article when rating it as “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

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