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 -0.26
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Queenslanders’ right to object to mining projects – including coal – would be “gutted” by new legislation that would ban opponents from being heard in court without the minister’s approval and then only if they owned a property within a 125km radius of the project. assertive
🔮 The apiarists will lose not just the stolen insects but the value of the pollination contracts, which can run into the thousands of dollars, he said. assertive
🔮 It recommended creating a new independent organisation – known as a police integrity unit – to investigate all complaints against police by May 2024, as one of its “four highest-priority recommendations”. assertive
🔮 A driver whose car careered into a crowd of Newcastle Knights supporters – leaving children as young as five injured – will be kept in custody as the community rallies to support those hospitalised after the crash. assertive
🔮 A medical specialist at the Queensland Children’s hospital warned that Elizabeth Struhs would not be safe at home with her mother years before her parents allowed her to die by withdrawing lifesaving medicine, a coronial inquest has heard. assertive
🔮 Child safety staff decided in 2019 that it would be “more detrimental” to not return Elizabeth, aged six at the time, to her Toowoomba home upon her discharge from hospital after suffering a coma due to diabetic ketoacidosis, a Queensland coroner heard. assertive
🔮 The doctor said Kerrie continued to not believe in medicine and that it would be unsafe for her daughter to live with her until she changed her views, the inquest heard. assertive
🔮 Doctors were so concerned about the religious beliefs of Elizabeth Struhs’ mother they recommended she be subjected to an involuntary mental health assessment because she delusionally believed her daughter would be healed from type 1 diabetes, a coroner has heard. assertive
🔮 The Queensland coroner’s court also heard the case worker may have been “overly influenced” by the presentation of Struhs’ “upper class home”, putting cases believed to involve a more immediate risk ahead of Elizabeth’s. assertive
🔮 That officer told the court that she didn’t have access to the QP9 for Kerrie’s conviction – a file produced by prosecutors and the police that would have included details about her offence – or the judge’s sentencing remarks. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
The Aporia