Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
61/100
The Sydney Morning Herald's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Other
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
This is rather curious: “When I opened my plastic-wrapped Herald on Monday Oct 12, and spread it on the kitchen bench, I noticed that the photo of Ben Roberts-Smith had been carefully removed from the front page,” reports Sue Lyall of Vaucluse.
asserted
Lyall → open → Vaucluse
“The tear was just around his image and carefully done so that no other part of the page was cut or missing.
asserted
part → do → page
I wonder how many other papers were tampered with by an unknown censor.”
asserted
papers → wonder → censor
Jack Dikian of Mosman takes the joystick: “HSC students: do your best, keep your nerve, and here’s hoping your recent Atari scores don’t influence your ATAR.”
asserted
scores → take → ATAR
“Driving past some local cattle herds over the weekend, I noticed that the bogongs (C8) seemed attracted almost magnetically to those dark-coloured beasts sitting around on the grass,” writes Mickey Pragnell of Kiama.
asserted
Pragnell → drive → Kiama
“The lighter-coloured cattle were more mobile, moving around the pastures, and seemed to have none of the bogongs bothering them.
asserted
none → move → them
I couldn’t think why, until I remembered that, of course, a strolling roan gathers no moths.”
asserted
roan → think → moths
“I had those same crêpes (C8) 20 years ago, but in Paris near the Notre-Dame Cathedral,” recalls Agostino Chiarella of Summer Hill.
asserted
Chiarella → have → Hill
“A restaurant had set up a stall at night outside its premises on the footpath, and was selling crepes Suzette flambéed with Grand Marnier and served on paper plates.
asserted
restaurant → set → plates
Nearby, a person was roasting chestnuts on a metal garbage can lid atop a shopping trolley.
asserted
person → roast → trolley
“Never mind being ‘shevelled’ or ‘gruntled’ (C8),” advises Nick Bencsik of Hunters Hill.
asserted
Bencsik → mind → Hill
“Is it possible to be just ‘whelmed’ if you’re neither over, nor underwhelmed?”
asserted
you → whelm → ?
“As a long-time reader, the verbal gymnastics of recent Column 8 postings has not left me ‘bewildered’ or ‘flustered’,” claims Phil Edwards of Denistone East.
uncertain
Edwards → leave → East
“Does that make me ‘combobulated’?”
asserted
me → make → ?
The last bit of wordplay, comes from Col Burns of Lugarno: ‘I was quite ‘whelmed’ when I Googled the etymology of ‘gruntled’ and discovered that ‘dis’ was mistakenly assumed to be a negative prefix.
asserted
dis → come → gruntled
However, surely, a pig with laryngitis is entitled to feel literally disgruntled.”
asserted
pig → entitle → laryngitis
Edward Loong of Milsons Point noted “two familiar names” in Wednesday’s column: “I knew a Barry Wooldridge at school in Parramatta in the late ’50s.
asserted
I → note → 50s
I also know, but have never met, Coral Button
asserted
I → know → Button
I separately practised as solicitors in Parramatta in the ’70s
asserted
I → practise → 70s
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