The arithmetic for one report
EXCLUSIVE: White House Scrambles After Trump Again Floats Amnesty Deal With Democrats
83Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1460 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 12 in the headline. 18% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes. 30 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): illegal aliens
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): composition
, amnesty.
, working good jobs
, He’s describing amnesty.
, lying to you.
, work a deal
, Dreamers
, Dreamers
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- In the headline:
scrambles
experimental, shown but not counted Raises the temperature
EXCLUSIVE: White House Scrambles After Trump Again Floats Amnesty Deal - Word choice:
illegal aliens
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
granting legal status to some illegal aliens and may work with Democrats oninsisted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
the Rapid Response 47 account insisted . Wrong. The word was never evenamazing
2 points Editorializing
other states it was downright amazing , and in no state was itundoubtedly
2 points Editorializing
couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could haveabsolutely
1 point Editorializing
BIPARTISAN support. You said it. ABSOLUTELY ! You said it: Keep who haveinsisted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
the U.S. as children, but insisted amnesty would remain off the table,so-called
2 points Expression of doubt
potential deal that would protect so-called Dreamers in exchange for broader changes - Raises the temperature:
sweeping
1 point Raises the temperature
efforts may have been too sweeping . The interview was pre-taped on Fridaycatastrophic
1 point Raises the temperature
in no state was it catastrophic . There was a genuine sense of
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 | 11 | 1460 | 7.5 | 20.0 (words 401 to 600) | 13.8 | 0 to 40 | 66 |
| Temperature | 2 | 1460 | 1.4 | 5.0 (words 1 to 200) | 3.2 | 0 to 40 | 92 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1460 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 401 to 600 of 1460, with amazing
, undoubtedly
; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 1460, with sweeping
.
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 66 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 92 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 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.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 3 (President Donald Trump, Ryan Girdusky, Secretary Markwayne Mullin) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 (0% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 2 www.congress.gov, www.congress.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 3 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 28 |
| 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 by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: 500020af0878a325. 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.