First-party data · Updated July 10, 2026
The Blind Spot Index
Every morning this brief lays the same news across ten political worldviews and records who showed up. This page turns that record into a number: how often each worldview was the blind spot, present nowhere on a story that most of the others covered.
From March 23, 2026 to July 10, 2026, across 43 briefs and 286 story clusters, the Tech / AI worldview was the blind spot on 121 of 138 stories that at least half the ten worldviews covered. That is 88% of the broadly-covered news going out with that worldview absent.
Every worldview, ranked by how often it was the blind spot
Share of the 138 broadly-covered stories (covered by at least 5 of the ten worldviews) where each worldview was absent. The right-hand figure is how often that worldview covered a story at all, across all 286 clusters, the context that explains the rank.
- Tech / AI 121 / 138 88% covered 15% of all stories
- Religious Right 75 / 138 54% covered 25% of all stories
- Libertarian 61 / 138 44% covered 36% of all stories
- Communist / Far-Left 51 / 138 37% covered 40% of all stories
- Identity 44 / 138 32% covered 51% of all stories
- Establishment / Center-Right 38 / 138 28% covered 45% of all stories
- Democratic Socialist 26 / 138 19% covered 55% of all stories
- Center / Nonpartisan 25 / 138 18% covered 59% of all stories
- MAGA / Populist Right 11 / 138 8% covered 67% of all stories
- Liberal Mainstream 10 / 138 7% covered 70% of all stories
How the index is built
The number comes straight from the archive, with no model and no hand-scoring. A script reads every published brief, and for each story cluster it records which worldviews left a coverage receipt. Everything below follows from that one record.
- The unit
- A story cluster: one worldview comparison in one morning's brief. A running story counts once per day it appeared. The dataset holds 286 clusters from 43 briefs, March 23, 2026 to July 10, 2026.
- Coverage
- A worldview covered a cluster when it appears in that cluster's coverage receipts, each tied to a named outlet and a cited article. Absence is the complement: a worldview not among the covering lenses had no coverage the brief could find for that story.
- Broadly covered
- A cluster covered by at least 5 of the ten worldviews, half the spectrum. There were 138 of them. Because a blind-spot worldview is absent, all 5 or more covering worldviews are different ones, so the plain reading holds: the worldview was missing from a story most of the room was in.
- The blind spot
- For each worldview, the count and share of those broadly-covered stories where it was absent. Ties keep spectrum order.
- Reproducible
- The tally is deterministic, so the same archive always yields the same table. It reflects coverage the brief recorded, not a claim about media beyond the sources it reads.
Frequently asked
What is the Blind Spot Index?
It is a first-party dataset from Unbiasable measuring how often each of ten political worldviews was the blind spot on the news: present nowhere on a story that at least half the ten worldviews covered. Across 43 daily briefs from March 23, 2026 to July 10, 2026, the Tech / AI worldview was the blind spot on 121 of 138 broadly-covered stories (88%).
How is a blind spot defined here?
A story cluster is broadly covered when at least 5 of the ten worldviews covered it. A worldview is the blind spot on such a story when it covered it nowhere the brief could find. The rate is the share of broadly-covered stories where that worldview was absent.
Does a high blind-spot rate mean a worldview has nothing to say?
No. The index measures what the brief captured across about 60 sources, not all media everywhere. A worldview read through fewer or narrower outlets, especially the cross-cutting Tech / AI and Identity lenses, goes silent on more general stories by volume, not by choice. The number is a statement about coverage in this dataset, not a judgment of the worldview.
How is the index calculated, and is it reproducible?
It is computed by a deterministic script that reads every published brief in the archive, records which worldviews covered each story cluster, and counts the absences on broadly-covered stories. There is no model, no sampling, and no manual scoring, so the same archive always yields the same numbers. It covers 286 story clusters across 43 briefs.
First-party data
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