The arithmetic for one report

What was read

1528 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 8 in the headline. 3% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes. 6 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): tyranny.

Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): Liberty or Death,, crisis management,, OPPOSITION. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.

Words found

• Word choice: regime attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  the brutal, despotic, and bloodthirsty regime of Islamic villains in Tehran, on
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  genuine determination to overthrow the regime of tyranny, ignorance, and terrorism. The
  tyranny 2 points Contentious label
  to overthrow the regime of tyranny , ignorance, and terrorism. The author of
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  — over to the Tehran regime ! And this was the author of
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  the collapse of the Tehran regime ! This was the conduct of American
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  about change in the Tehran regime . I still believe that you may
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  the elimination of the great terrorist of the Middle East, Qassem Soleimani,
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. You always pursued a policy
  regime attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  that theirs is a mafia regime in the hands of villains and
  thugs attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  the hands of villains and thugs . You did not listen. During your
  tyrannical attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  national movement against the repressive, tyrannical , occupying, destructive, and plundering regime, wrote
  regime attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  tyrannical, occupying, destructive, and plundering regime , wrote a letter to the dictator
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  path and gave the dictatorial regime another breathing opportunity for its survival.
  unfortunately 2 points Editorializing
  breathing opportunity for its survival. Unfortunately , however, your entire mental picture became
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  terrorism — of the Shiite terrorist variety — vindictively decided, of course
  of course 2 points Editorializing
  terrorist variety — vindictively decided, of course in coordination with certain sections of
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  one shakes hands with a terrorist or signs an agreement with one,
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  sufficient to brainwash an Islamic terrorist and serves as a document to
  regime attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  pursuing the survival of the regime in Tehran. You did not even
  thugs 3 points Contentious label
  agreement with murderous villains and thugs such as Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, Ahmad-Reza
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  demonstrate your genuine determination. This regime will remain opposed to America and
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  after you. This rogue Islamic regime can be destroyed only through and
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  and win the war. The regime ’s military capabilities may have been weakened,
  propaganda 3 points Contentious label
  its machinery of repression, its propaganda machinery, and its machinery of terrorism
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  the diplomats and close the regime ’s offices in New York and Washington.
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  not even shut down the regime ’s echo-chamber nests on American soil —
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  did you shut down the regime ’s notorious lobbying organizations inside America —
  notorious 1 point Contentious label
  you shut down the regime’s notorious lobbying organizations inside America — such
  so-called 2 points Expression of doubt
  with domestic action. In these so-called negotiations , you ignored the demands
  terrorists 3 points Contentious label
  your hopes in villains and terrorists such as Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and
• Raises the temperature: truly attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  people believed that you would truly distinguish between the brutal, despotic, and
  brutal attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  would truly distinguish between the brutal , despotic, and bloodthirsty regime of Islamic
  very attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  Tehran (the subject of the very book I wrote in your dungeon,
  humiliating attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  dungeon, Tehran’s dictator) to a humiliating death. Thereafter, the believers in Islamic
  destroyed 1 point Raises the temperature
  rogue Islamic regime can be destroyed only through and sporadic warfare alone

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.

Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1201 to 1400 of 1528, with regime, regime, regime, propaganda, regime, regime, regime, notorious, so-called; Temperature, words 1051 to 1250 of 1528, with destroyed.

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.

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 0 + 10)^0.4 × (Temperature 93 + 10)^0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)^0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)^0.1 − 10 = 31. 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.

The outlet labels this report as opinion, so it does not count toward the outlet's news score.

What a reader could check

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, 3:10 PM ET by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: 2d6d0acda4098bf0. 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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