Author: David Smith
David Smith
has 25% among authors.
BS Score: 2%.
Articles analyzed: 10.
Words analyzed: 46,579.
Analyzed articles
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/29/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 34.7% - Negativity Bias 33% - Confirmation Bias 19.2%
This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/28/2026, 5:00 AM
Negativity Bias 27.4% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 19.6% - Appeal to Emotion 19.3%
In the back yard of a Brooklyn bar, beneath strung-up lightbulbs and swaths of fabric that swooped like great sails, an ecstatic crowd greeted Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, and his victorious ally, Brad Lander. These Democrats also had a withering verdict on their own party establishment. “To me, centrists can go fuck... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/10/2026, 5:10 PM
Negativity Bias 21.8% - Biased Writer Voice 18.5% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 11%
Progressives rallied around Graham Platner after his primary victory in Maine on Tuesday while Donald Trump again exerted his grip on the Republican party by helping to defeat a politician who had pushed for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Primary elections were held in four states – Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/10/2026, 1:27 AM
Halo Effect 13.4% - In-Group Bias 13.3% - Framing Effect 10.4%
Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has scaled a mountain of personal controversies to win the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Maine. Victory on Tuesday caps a remarkable rise for a candidate who has never held elected office and whose campaign was shadowed by negative headlines that might... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/3/2026, 9:00 AM
Negativity Bias 23% - Appeal to Authority 8.8% - Appeal to Emotion 8.8%
James Ellroy does not own a computer, his publicist explains, so will a phone interview be OK? When the self-proclaimed “mad dog of American crime fiction” picks up his landline at the appointed hour, it transpires that he has never owned a mobile phone either. Nor sent an email. Nor figured out how to turn on his ex-wife Helen Knode’s... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 5/27/2026, 1:39 AM
Biased Writer Voice 30.2% - Negativity Bias 29.9% - Framing Effect 24.4%
Ken Paxton, the Donald Trump-backed Texas attorney general, triumphed over incumbent John Cornyn in the Republican primary runoff for senator. His victory signals that even a scandal-plagued candidate can win over the deep red state with the support of the president. “After a public service career lasting more than four decades and 18... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 5/23/2026, 10:00 AM
Negativity Bias 45.8% - Biased Writer Voice 23.4% - Framing Effect 16.8%
As Abba’s Dancing Queen played, Donald Trump walked across a lawn featuring cornhole, oversized Connect Four, a ferris wheel and a food tent offering short ribs, mac and cheese and apple pie. Members of Congress and their families had come for the annual White House picnic. But not every member of Congress. Missing the fun was Thomas... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 5/14/2026, 3:02 PM
Biased Writer Voice 86.2% - Negativity Bias 43.1% - Unattributed Quote 28.8%
Why does Donald Trump look so at home in China? The US president spent day one of his summit in Beijing basking in rigid pageantry, heroically managing not to offend his hosts and offering the verdict: “China is beautiful.” A man who has shown authoritarian yearnings in his own country – discrediting elections, cowing universities,... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 4/26/2026, 10:00 AM
Anecdotal 35.7% - Biased Writer Voice 35.4% - Appeal to Emotion 26.8%
Shocking. Unnerving. Unpredictable. Violent. For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. Bang! Bang! What was that? Where was it? At 8.36pm panic and pandemonium reigned in the cavernous ballroom... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 4/20/2026, 9:33 PM
Negativity Bias 45.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 17.5%
Donald Trump’s labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down, the administration announced on Monday, after a series of misconduct allegations including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job. “Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,”... more