For the second time, MLK50’s resilience is honored by national group 25%
By MLK50 Staff4%
7/28/2026, 10:11:20 AM
Topics: Journalism Awards, Operational Resilience
Keywords: Newsroom
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 27% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 233 faulty-reasoning hits from 196 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.8% and a BS Rank of 25% (17,920 of 23,742 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.50% of the article peer group.
LION Publishers is an organization with the mission of strengthening the local news industry by helping independent news publishers build more sustainable businesses.
It has more than 450 members in the U.S. and Canada.
MLK50 is a contender for the operational resilience award.
Judges noted how “in a complex, taxing year of transition and disruption, physical and emotional safety for the MLK50 staff became paramount.
… The changes they made, from increased digital security to safety trainings, to enhanced healthcare benefits and restructured staff meetings, helped prevent burnout and led to deeper engagement with their residents.”
It’s the second time MLK50 has been acknowledged by LION in this category.
In 2024, MLK50 won awards from the organization for operational resilience and financial health.
This story is brought to you by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and policy — issues about which Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply.
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
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Halo Effect
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Recency Bias
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Circular Reasoning
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Special Pleading
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Indoctrination
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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