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 -0.25
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 For three days this year, locals in the historic main street of Boulder, in Western Australia's Goldfields, got a glimpse of what it would be like with a police station back in town. assertive
🔮 Heavy rain could turn the road into mud, and sometimes the smoothest route was not the highway at all, but the firebreak running beside it. assertive
🔮 Early stage work is also progressing on plans for a proposed desalination plant at Esperance, which could potentially provide additional water capacity for the Goldfields. assertive
🔮 In short:
Conflicting advice over whether he could or could not legally access his outback tenement left Goldfields prospector Dale Richardson stranded for almost a month. assertive
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