Author: Fiona Macdonald
Fiona Macdonald
has 6.7% among authors.
BS Score: 1.4%.
Articles analyzed: 6.
Words analyzed: 35,338.
Analyzed articles
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 6/29/2026, 9:53 AM
Negativity Bias 20.6% - Anecdotal 16.8% - Appeal to Emotion 11.5%
In July 1983, Clash of Loyalties was screened for the first – and almost last – time. In 2020, its producer told the BBC about conscriptions, interrogations, and a drunk Oliver Reed. The biggest threat to Saddam Hussein's epic Hollywood-style film Clash of Loyalties was not the outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq in 1980, a few weeks... more
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 6/22/2026, 9:50 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 18.9% - Negativity Bias 11.8% - Framing Effect 9.9%
David Cornwell was steeped in secrecy throughout his life – long before he took on the nom de plume John le Carré, long before his first novel, Call for the Dead, was published in June 1961, and long before he became one of the UK's most critically acclaimed, bestselling spy novelists. He learned deception and self-reliance from an early... more
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 6/15/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 30.3% - Negativity Bias 25.1% - Anecdotal 21.5%
The Lord Lucan affair is a bizarre and horrific one, but on the face of it, there seems to be little doubt about the sequence of events. During the night of 7 November 1974, it appears, the British aristocrat Lord Lucan hid in the dark in the basement kitchen of his house in Belgravia, London. Planning to murder his estranged wife,... more
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 6/10/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 29.1% - Halo Effect 22.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 12.1%
'I locked myself in a toilet until we were afloat': The woman who stowed away on a ship to report on D-Day "Everyone was violently busy on that crowded, dangerous shore," writes Martha Gellhorn in a dispatch from the D-Day landings in June 1944. "We walked with the utmost care between the narrowly placed white tape lines that marked the... more
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 5/20/2026, 11:00 AM
Hasty Generalization 5% - Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 4.2% - Framing Effect 3.4%
It's 35 years since the first British person went into space. Helen Sharman was a 27-year-old food scientist when she stumbled upon a job ad to be part of an Anglo-Soviet commercial venture, Project Juno. Sharman told BBC News in 1991: "All along the selection process, I never really believed that it could be me." One of the lesser-known... more
BBC
- By Fiona Macdonald
- 5/11/2026, 11:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 20.7% - Appeal to Authority 19.3% - Negativity Bias 13.9%
In May 1917, three Portuguese children declared that they had seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a meadow. The prophecies they received fuelled anti-communist sentiment in the Cold War. In 1992, a witness told the BBC about the "miracles". On 13 May 1917, 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos and her younger cousins Francisco and Jacinta... more