The Bulwark69%
Can Subsidies Bring Film Production Back to the USA? 97%
By Sonny Bunch73%
7/17/2026, 10:03:04 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 39.2% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 526 faulty-reasoning hits from 130 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.4% and a BS Rank of 97% (596 of 17,859 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 96.70% of the article peer group.
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Chris Fenton to discuss efforts to pass a federal tax credit that would help reshore American film production and his own made-in-America film, Bad Counselors, which hits theaters next week.
Things got a little spicy as we debated some of the downsides of these programs—and, specifically, how they might come to pass; I think the federal government should be working for all of America on this issue rather than picking winners and losers tby state—but something clearly needs to be done.
Film production and the culture industry more broadly is one of the great American exports, and we’ll all be better off if we can find a way to keep those jobs in America.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
39.2%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
25.4%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
39.2%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
39.2%Negativity Bias
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39.2%AuthorSonny Bunch
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Self-Serving Bias
25.4%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
39.2%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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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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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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130 words analyzed.
Analysis
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