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.
4 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 -0.25
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 California Democrats earlier this year worried they might get shut out of the state’s top-two primary for governor out of fears they were running too many candidates. assertive
2026-09-27 · www.thestar.com - RSS Results of type article
🔮 It’s a central theme of the Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, one of a handful expected to determine control of the chamber in the November elections. assertive
2026-10-10 · www.thestar.com - RSS Results of type article
🔮 He said he will not be beholden to a “party boss” or party line, and he rankled some voters earlier in the campaign by not explicitly saying which party he would caucus with in the House if he were elected. 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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