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Voters demanded economic relief. Trump and Democrats face tough choices on how to deliver
Headline with the fewest flagged expressions, from ABC News · 2 outlets · 2 reports
Earliest reported publication among tracked outlets: ABC News, . This is the earliest publication time an outlet gives in its own feed. It does not show who broke the story.
Word choice 93Temperature 93Flagged attribution phrases 70Headline wording 100
Lowered most by flagged attribution phrases
full text read · 16% of the text is in quotes · first figure: 165,000 · arithmetic
Names and figures each report includes
Names and numbers found in two or more reports of this event. A blank means not detected in the text this site could read, which is not the same as left out. This view does not change any score.
Name or number
ABC News
PBS NewsHour
19
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50
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165,000
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4.1%
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3.7%
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2%
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1 trillion
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500 billion
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2 trillion
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80.6%
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2032.
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2032,
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President Donald Trump
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Social Security
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Flagged words in context
Every listed word found in the stories' own text, with the words around it. Grey marks are shown but not counted: negated, attributed to a speaker, literal use, discussing the term, explained anonymity, or experimental.
ABC News: in Tuesday's voting, he has claimed he is willing to work with 1 point · Expression of doubt
ABC News: The AP Voter Poll, a sweeping survey of the American electorate conducted 1 point · Raises the temperature
ABC News: Experts say after 2032, Warren said. she said. 2 points · Vague attribution
PBS NewsHour: in Tuesday's voting, he has claimed he is willing to work with 1 point · Expression of doubt
PBS NewsHour: The AP Voter Poll, a sweeping survey of the American electorate conducted 1 point · Raises the temperature
PBS NewsHour: Experts say after 2032, Warren said. she said. 2 points · Vague attribution
What each report gives readers to check
Counted by published patterns in the text read. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How each count works
Sentences that mention only one side's party or politicians, counted for each side. Democratic side: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Democrat, Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Newsom, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Walz, Harris. Republican side: Republican Party, Republicans, Republican, Thune, Johnson, McConnell, DeSantis, Cruz, Greene, Vance, Trump. Asymmetry runs from −1 to +1; positive means the Democratic side gets more of that treatment, given how often each side is mentioned. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How it works
Reports whose first quoted speaker is on this side
2
0
Reports whose last quoted speaker is on this side
2
0
Asymmetry = (pD − pR) ÷ (pD + pR), where p = (count + 1) ÷ (sentences + 2) for each side. Shown when the two sides together have 3 or more cases. From 2 reports.
How each outlet presented it
Outlet
First figure
Figures framed as gain or loss
Front page
ABC News
165,000
PBS NewsHour
165,000
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