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.
1 scored article;
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 -0.17
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 "[One] that will continue to put them at the centre of not just the counter-insurgency campaign, but even in the protection and prolongation of military rule. assertive
🔮 "Nigeria will not be allowed to become a haven for transnational drug cartels seeking to relocate their laboratories from other jurisdictions into our forests and rural communities", he said. assertive
🔮 - Published
Nigeria's first confirmed case of Ebola since the outbreak in East Africa began in May is the wife of a diplomat who travelled to Uganda's capital for a holiday, the head of Africa's health agency has told the BBC. assertive
🔮 - Published
Health officials are investigating whether Ebola patients in Nigeria and Kenya may have crossed paths at Uganda's main airport earlier this month. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
The Aporia