👤 John Bailey

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-08-26 – 2026-10-07
Claims per article
41
165 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,192
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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.

What they cover

Entertainment
100%
Most-tagged topics
AlienAustralianBritainChileanDuneFrenchHollywoodMario Kart

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; 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 -0.26 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Murder on the dancefloor: Hollywood’s nightclub scenes are a crime
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
In praise of the queue: standing in line is a form of mindfulness
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Dune 3 will be a hit, but there’s one mad version we’ll never get to see
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Entertainment
Other people’s dreams bore me rigid. So why are films and TV shows full of them?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-08-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Other people’s dreams bore me rigid. So why are films and TV shows full of them?
🔮 The irony here is that James himself could really knock out a killer dream story. assertive
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Dune 3 will be a hit, but there’s one mad version we’ll never get to see
🔮 Jon Schnepp’s The Death of ‘Superman Lives’: What Happened? (2015) offers a glimpse of the monstrosity that might have been had Tim Burton directed his Superman movie with Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
In praise of the queue: standing in line is a form of mindfulness
🔮 That’s probably generalising, though, or at least affording too much weight to the less generous members of the nation. It might not be cultural, of course. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Murder on the dancefloor: Hollywood’s nightclub scenes are a crime
🔮 Most depressing of all is the fear that someone will video you right when you’re losing yourself to dance. 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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