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.
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 -0.15
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 “When you are talking about the life and death of a toddler who could only be saved by a transplant, you couldn’t immediately then go into a song and dance, or a talking dog. assertive
🔮 A MI5 report from April 1937 noted that a “comrade” in Manchester had been “severely censured” for proposing a series of demonstrations as it would be “playing into the hands of the fascists and police”. 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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