The arithmetic for one report
Blessing atrocities in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill desecrates Russian Orthodox Church
73Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
529 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 10 in the headline. 10% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes. 2 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): regime
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): Russian world
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
claimed
1 point Expression of doubt
In April, Russia claimed that Ukraine had attacked a civilianactually
1 point Editorializing
Kirill observed, It’s unclear what actually happened. But considering that Ukraine hasobviously
2 points Editorializing
he chooses. This faux-holy narrative obviously appeals to the Kremlin. For Ukrainians,happily
1 point Editorializing
in ever greater quantities. Kirill happily ignores this reality. Addressing Putin onterrorists
3 points Contentious label
These are the tactics of terrorists seeking to scare civilians into abandoningevil
2 points Editorializing
their faith in the Kremlin’s evil service. And by sanctifying what is - Raises the temperature:
very
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
Ukraine is intrinsic to the very idea of Russia. What Russian Orthodoxvery
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
Kirill believe justify annihilating the very people he claims are part 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 | 10 | 529 | 18.9 | 25.0 (words 1 to 200) | 22.0 | 0 to 40 | 45 |
| Temperature | 0 | 529 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 40 | 100 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 529 | 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 1 to 200 of 529, with claimed
, actually
, obviously
, happily
.
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: 2 of 2 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 45 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 100 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 73. 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
| People named as sources | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 |
| 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) | 2 |
| 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: e090526f45de68ae. 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.