Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
17%
3 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
60/100
NPR's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
5
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Perspective: The next James Bond
Perspective: The next James Bond
This weekend, perhaps even as we speak, auditions are being held in London to cast the next Bond.
asserted
auditions → speak → Bond
Double-oh—well, you know.
asserted
you → know → ?
Deadline reports that at least three actors will be screen tested: Jack Lowden, Josh O' Connor, and Callum Turner, who are all fine, experienced British actors and...how do I say this? Hunks.
asserted
I → report → this
The Bond selected by Amazon MGM Studios will succeed Daniel Craig, who has owned the role since Casino Royale in 2006, following a parade of other fine, hunky British actors stretching way back to Sean Connery, who starred in Dr. No in 1962.
asserted
who → select → 1962
The literary Bond — a name poached from Dr. James Bond, an American ornithologist who wrote the field guide, Birds of the West Indies, when author Ian Fleming was living in Jamaica — was a Cold War creation.
asserted
Fleming → poach → Jamaica
Fleming wrote Casino Royale in 1953, when Great Britain was feeling diminished.
asserted
Britain → write → 1953
Brits had won World War II, with pluck and skill, but were losing their empire.
asserted
Brits → win → empire
British agents (Guy Burgess, Kim Philby) kept slipping out to Moscow with official secrets before British intelligence could discover they were spies.
uncertain
they → slip → secrets
It was all damaging to Britain, and embarrassing.
asserted
It → damage → Britain
But then James Bond strode into the pages of popular culture, dapper and deft.
asserted
Bond → stride → culture
The Soviets and their allies might have sophisticated weaponry and boundless barbarity.
uncertain
Soviets → have → weaponry
But did they drink their martinis shaken, or stirred?
asserted
they → drink → martinis
The great espionage novels of Graham Greene and John LeCarre depicted spycraft as a grimy, compromising business.
asserted
novels → depict → business
But Fleming's 007, and the onscreen Bonds who played out those stories, dispatched danger in exotic locales, and without rumpling the pleats on their dinner jackets.
asserted
who → play → jackets
Of course ogres and adversaries can shift shapes over decades.
asserted
ogres → shift → decades
I find myself more curious about what forces will next threaten the world when James Bond, whoever plays him, returns to film.
asserted
whoever → find → film
So many devices can now listen to, watch, and track our lives second by second, and feed us information they hope will steer our opinions.
asserted
they → listen → opinions
It may make you think of a line in Dr. No, where Bond tells the scientist who believes he can control the world with his inventions, "Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God."
uncertain
they → make → people
The Aporia
