Author: Margaret Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
has 53.1% among authors.
BS Score: 3.2%.
Articles analyzed: 3.
Words analyzed: 8,163.
Analyzed articles
the Guardian
- By Margaret Sullivan
- 6/4/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 61.6% - Negativity Bias 32.1% - Halo Effect 20%
Journalism is supposed to speak truth to power, as when Walter Cronkite reported, on the CBS airwaves, that the Vietnam war was not progressing as the US government was claiming, or when the Washington Post revealed, through its Watergate reporting, that the Nixon administration was corrupt. Truth to power. Or, as the New York Times... more
The Guardian
- By Margaret Sullivan
- 5/29/2026, 11:00 AM
Negativity Bias 63.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 30.3% - Availability Heuristic 26.5%
American presidents don’t have a stellar record of transparency about their health problems. After a polio diagnosis that caused paralysis of his lower body, Franklin Delano Roosevelt used a wheelchair to get around, but went to great lengths to conceal it from the public. John F Kennedy suffered debilitating back pain, but most... more
The Guardian
- By Margaret Sullivan
- 4/30/2026, 10:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 60.5% - Framing Effect 11.8% - Hasty Generalization 10.2%
A few days before the alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend, one comic’s joke on his late-night show sounded routine enough, if a little edgy. Taking a jab at the hefty age gap between Donald and Melania Trump, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel – playing the role of guest comic at a mock White House correspondents’ dinner –... more
The Guardian
- By Margaret Sullivan
- 3/13/2026, 12:00 PM
The videos look authentic – and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Another shows US soldiers being held at gunpoint by Iranian military. They aren’t real but – often made with the help of cutting-edge AI – they are wildly misleading.... more