Robert De Niro Ferociously Taunts Trump Ally At Film Screening

What was read

215 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 10 in the headline. 49% of the text is in quotes, with 7 listed words inside quotes. 5 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.

Listed words inside quotes (not scored; quoting is reporting, but which quotes to use is an editorial choice): disastrous, crazy, stupid, stupid, stupid, massive, very.

Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): Musk,, bluenami., Raging Bull,, Musk. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.

Words found

Raises the temperature: blasted 1 point Raises the temperature
Robert De Niro blasted not-so-good fella Elon Musk during the
erupted 2 points Raises the temperature
showbiz outlet. Cheers and laughs erupted at the intimate showing of Musk,
raging 2 points Raises the temperature
who won Oscars for and Raging Bull, has been a steady celebrity
Attribution phrases: reportedly 2 points Unnamed source
a more serious message. he reportedly said, referring to Musk’s announcement that
reportedly 2 points Unnamed source
July and early October, Musk reportedly donated $276 million to Republicans to
reportedly 2 points Unnamed source
That number reportedly grew to $500 million .

Layer scores

Rates are counted points per 1,000 words of the story's own text. For a story longer than 200 words, the rate used is the average of the whole-story rate and the rate in its densest 200-word stretch, so neutral filler cannot dilute a loaded passage away. Score = 100 × (loaded end − rate used) ÷ loaded end, kept between 0 and 100. Headline words count only in the headline layer.

Layer	Points	Words	Whole-story rate	Densest 200 words	Rate used	Scale	Score
Word choice	0	215	0.0	0.0 (words 1 to 200)	0.0	0 to 40	100
Temperature	5	215	23.3	25.0 (words 1 to 200)	24.1	0 to 40	40
Flagged attribution phrases	6	215	27.9	30.0 (words 1 to 200)	29.0	0 to 20	0
Headline wording	0	25	0.0	headline only	0.0	0 to 240	100

Densest stretch: Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 215, with blasted, erupted, raging; Flagged attribution phrases, words 1 to 200 of 215, with reportedly, reportedly, reportedly.

Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 0.0 points per 1,000 words. Experimental: 1 of 3 names and figures in the headline also appear in the text read.

Overall

Weighted geometric mean of the layers that are established, with 10 added to each layer first and taken away at the end: (Word choice 100 + 10)^0.4 × (Temperature 40 + 10)^0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 0 + 10)^0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)^0.1 − 10 = 44. Adding 10 means one layer at 0 lowers the total steeply without collapsing it. A weak layer pulls the total down.

Lowered the score most: Flagged attribution phrases.

Name-swap test: with party, politician and institution names swapped, this report's score moves by 0.0 points.

What a reader could check

People named as sources	1 (De Niro)
Unnamed sources	3 (75% of all sources found)
Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs)	0
Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing)	0
Checkable specifics (numbers and dates)	4
Data shown (a table or chart)	no
Correction or clarification noted	no

What a reader could check, counted by published patterns. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How each count works

Checked against the official record

No vote count or bill number found in the text read.

Record of this measurement

Method 3.1.0, word-list fingerprint 807a17189402a416, read Mon, Nov 9, 8:49 AM ET by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: c9b5f93166fd2e4e. Internet Archive copy nearest the time it was read. The text read was not kept (read before method 3.1.0, or from the feed only), so a later rule change can be applied only while the report is still in the outlet's feed.

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