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.
5 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.
🔮 When they touched down however, the youngsters would have been shocked to look out of their windows and find not Mickey and Minnie waiting to greet them but a squad of grim-faced police surrounding the plane. assertive
🔮 Stegemann's grieving family will doubtless not be surprised to be told that they are far from the only Canadians who claim that a beloved relative has been unethically and illegally urged to shake off their mortal coil by an assisted dying program that, its detractors claim, has run out of control. assertive
🔮 But turn off the main road, a 25-minute drive northeast from the airport – as I did last week – and visitors will discover another, rather more controversial feature of the Honduran island that has put it on the map. assertive
🔮 As he shuffled around on stage, leaning first on his piano for support and then the tall plastic frame surrounding his drummer, Rod Stewart might have seemed a trifle optimistic when he sang: ‘Young hearts, be free tonight! mixed
🔮 He is 20-year-old Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard of the US Marines and his arrest for robbery and murder has plunged American relations with one of its key Asian allies into a growing crisis.
With the Trump administration clamping down on US foreign defense commitments and both China and North Korea increasingly flexing its muscles, Americans might argue that – even if the killing of Yagi sounds horrendous – a crime committed by a US serviceman is a small price to pay for the benefit of being protected by Uncle Sam. assertive
🔮 One might have assumed that any state attorney general who was soon to stand for even higher office might try to avoid such dubious associations but Paxton, say his critics, is not the sort of man to let propriety get in the way of a damn good party. assertive
🔮 When even the usually austere 'Gray Lady' resorts to such dramatic language, readers might be tempted to think that there really may be something in the whispers – repeated over decades as each successive tragedy has only strengthened the idea – that the Kennedy clan are cursed. assertive
🔮 Even as the bells pealed at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the festivities for the future Duke and Duchess of Sussex were overshadowed by her difficult relationship with her 'other' family. assertive
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