👤 Michael Finnegan

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-08-31 – 2026-10-28
Claims per article
73
220 extracted in total
Hedged claims
2%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
9,650
characters
Writes for Los Angeles Times.
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.

What they cover

Politics
67%
World
33%
Most-tagged topics
FranceBordeauxFrenchMarseilleParisCaliforniaD&P GreenLe Porge

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
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 -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-28 · Los Angeles Times · Politics
Paris braces for more unrest as riots reshape the city's streets
22 outlets covered this event
2026-10-19 · Los Angeles Times · Politics
France on edge as curfews imposed to curb rioting and looting
15 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-08-31 · Los Angeles Times · World
France's wildfire nightmare echoes California's hard lessons on building in the woods
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-08-31 · Los Angeles Times
France's wildfire nightmare echoes California's hard lessons on building in the woods
🔮 ‘We call that California-style,’ said a mayor of homes built among the trees. assertive
2026-10-19 · Los Angeles Times
France on edge as curfews imposed to curb rioting and looting
🔮 The leading candidate to succeed Macron in the presidential election next spring is Marine Le Pen, who would be the first far-right leader of France since the Vichy regime that collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II. assertive
2026-10-28 · Los Angeles Times
Paris braces for more unrest as riots reshape the city's streets
🔮 “They’re afraid their stores will be attacked and looted,” Yves Gollety, owner of the weapons store, explained. 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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