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 +0.08
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Earlier this year, the Sites project suffered a potentially fatal blow when a state agency decided that the reservoir could not use more than 34% of its long-planned water supplies in order to “save” the Sacramento delta and its marine inhabitants. assertive
🔮 For a generation, Nick Patsaouras was widely seen as a visionary, a man who dreamed of an LA whose downtown would emerge as the center of our vast, sprawling region. mixed
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