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 -0.29
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 The failures are likely breaches of a NSW policy designed to “avoid causing unnecessary distress to people who may have wished to make other funeral arrangements”. assertive
🔮 “While I appreciate that this may not be at the top of most people’s list of daily concerns, how we treat our most vulnerable, including in death, goes to our values and who we are as a country.” assertive
🔮 Australian engineer Robert Pether has been allowed to leave Iraq after a four-year stint in a Baghdad jail cell that his family feared would kill him. assertive
🔮 Lawyers from a leading law firm for the Marist Brothers have been subpoenaed to explain a once-confidential document showing they advised the Catholic order to keep a serial offender out of “the legal arena”, suggesting he was too honest and might implicate senior church officials. mixed
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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