The arithmetic for one report
Trump's "war-time consigliere" and the Miller Doctrine
83Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
680 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 7 in the headline. 17% of the text is in quotes, with 5 listed words inside quotes. 9 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): Democrat Party
, extremist
, regime
, regime
, very
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): war-time consigliere
, Face the Nation,
, at war
, it's game over.
, hard power
, Buckle up.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
extremist
3 points Contentious label
considers the Democratic Party an extremist organization, and dreams of ruthless crackdowns - Attribution phrases:
source said
2 points Unnamed source
worked with the two. the source said .
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 | 3 | 680 | 4.4 | 15.0 (words 1 to 200) | 9.7 | 0 to 40 | 76 |
| Temperature | 0 | 680 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 40 | 100 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 2 | 680 | 2.9 | 10.0 (words 251 to 450) | 6.5 | 0 to 20 | 68 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 680, with extremist
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 251 to 450 of 680, with source said
.
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 1 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 76 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 100 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 68 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 83. 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: Word choice.
Name-swap test: with party, politician and institution names swapped, this report's score moves by 0.0 points.
Only the feed's headline and summary were read, so this report is listed with the headline-and-summary results and never enters the outlet ranking.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 2 (Roger Stone, Sean Hannity) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 1 (33% 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) | 5 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | no |
| Correction or clarification noted | no |
What a reader could check, counted by published patterns. Only the headline and summary were read, so most counts will be low. 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 by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: e1fe23354b542e4d. 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.