Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
2 scored articles;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages +0.01
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Those politically engaged immigration philosophers may have valid points to make but they cover their faces to intimidate and to protect themselves from identification when their rhetoric spills over into racist abuse, as it usually does. assertive
🔮 Watching him strut alongside backing singers young enough to be his granddaughters – all wearing the green and white hoops of his beloved Celtic – fans could almost have believed the road went on forever for this most robust of rock stars. assertive
🔮 He had expected to see him in his St Bartholomew’s Hospital bed, but death had come quickly – an hour before family members could reach him. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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