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 +0.02
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Israel went to war the next day to dismantle an Iranian-backed terror enclave on its border that no sovereign nation would tolerate – and to restore the deterrence that guarantees its survival. assertive
🔮 My first thought on hearing that counter-terrorism police had declared a ‘major incident’ near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and arrested several men for explosives offenses was a weary, ‘Not another one’.
When would-be atrocity becomes banal you know your country has a serious problem. 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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