Author: Rocco Parascandola
Rocco Parascandola
has 11.4% among authors.
BS Score: 1.5%.
Articles analyzed: 48.
Words analyzed: 102,662.
Analyzed articles
New York Daily News
- By Colin Mixson, Rocco Parascandola, Emma Seiwell, Thomas Tracy
- 7/1/2026, 5:04 PM
Halo Effect 12% - Framing Effect 9.6% - Availability Heuristic 9.4%
A daredevil couple climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday and unfurled a banner about love during an apparent marriage proposal. Cops were called to the iconic W. 34th St. skyscraper after Ivan “Vanya” Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, stars of a 2024 Netflix documentary “Skywalkers: A Love Story,”... more
New York Daily News
- By Emma Seiwell, Rocco Parascandola, John Annese, Thomas Tracy
- 6/27/2026, 10:23 PM
Negativity Bias 42.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 23% - Biased Writer Voice 13.2%
An 84-year-old grandfather at the heart of an ongoing property dispute over a Brooklyn brownstone that sparked protests and a handful of arrests was taken into custody by the city Sheriff’s Office and sent back to Georgia, where he’s a ward of the state, the Daily News has learned. A Brooklyn civil court judge had ordered New York City... more
New York Daily News
- By Emma Seiwell, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy
- 6/25/2026, 5:58 PM
Appeal to Emotion 17.5% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 13.5% - Anecdotal 11.7%
A religious 75-year-old grandfather mysteriously gunned down by a Queens lake last month may have been the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, the victim’s shattered family said Thursday as detectives continue to hunt for clues and a clear motive in the killing. Albert Itzkowitz was enjoying a warm Spring day by Kissena Lake in Kissena... more
New York Daily News
- By Colin Mixson, Rocco Parascandola
- 6/24/2026, 9:06 PM
Appeal to Authority 26.5% - Negativity Bias 23.1% - Availability Heuristic 22.3%
Two teens were arrested Wednesday after a 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, cops said. The suspects, boys ages 14 and 17, were charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm after police recovered video of the younger teen pulling a gun from the waistband of the other boy’s pants... more
New York Daily News
- By Kerry Burke, Molly Crane-Newman, Rocco Parascandola, Colin Mixson
- 6/22/2026, 10:08 PM
Appeal to Emotion 27.6% - Negativity Bias 26% - Framing Effect 21.1%
A 26-year-old mother was killed when two jet skis collided during a boozy, moonlit ride on the Harlem River, according to prosecutors and the victim’s family. Zielissa Vargas was with a group of friends all riding jet skis when the crash occurred just north of the RFK Bridge around 10 p.m. Saturday, prosecutors said. “She was a good and... more
New York Daily News
- By Rocco Parascandola, Roni Jacobson
- 6/22/2026, 12:39 AM
Appeal to Authority 74.2% - Unattributed Quote 49.7% - Biased Writer Voice 32.7%
A NYPD officer was rammed with a stolen car and a suspect was shot in an incident in the Bronx on Sunday night, a police source said. The officer, who was in uniform, was injured just before 6 p.m. at East Fordham Road and Webster Ave. in Fordham, according to police. Authorities could not immediately confirm how the officer was hurt,... more
New York Daily News
- By Theodore Parisienne, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy
- 6/19/2026, 1:58 PM
Framing Effect 18.4% - Negativity Bias 16% - Halo Effect 5.5%
An NYPD cop was shot in the leg inside a Brooklyn apartment building following a heated standoff with an emotionally disturbed gunman who was killed in the exchange of gunfire Friday, police said. The shooting occurred inside the gunman’s home Kosciuszko St. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant as an elderly couple cowered in an... more
New York Daily News
- By Rocco Parascandola, Colin Mixson, Evan Simko-Bednarski, Kerry Burke
- 6/17/2026, 8:55 PM
Negativity Bias 29.6% - Unattributed Quote 25.1% - Appeal to Authority 23.2%
A family of tourists’ picturesque outing in a Central Park carriage turned into a nightmare Wednesday when an 18-year-old from India died after an out-of-control horse pulling the carriage he was riding in suddenly bolted, sending the carriage careening onto its side as onlookers watched in horror. The precise circumstances of the 2:47... more
New York Daily News
- By Nicholas Williams, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy
- 6/16/2026, 8:31 PM
Unattributed Quote 25.5% - Negativity Bias 11.9% - Biased Writer Voice 7.1%
The father of a teen stabbed to death in a brawl between moped riders in a Queens park thought his son was safely sleeping at a friend’s house when he didn’t come home that night. Zavier Belizaire, 19, was slain about 8:30 p.m. Thursday inside Little Bay Park off the Cross Island Parkway in Bay Terrace after a fight broke... more
New York Daily News
- By Roni Jacobson, Rocco Parascandola, Rebecca White, Colin Mixson
- 6/16/2026, 3:53 AM
Negativity Bias 13.1% - Hindsight Bias 8.2% - Halo Effect 8.2%
Two men used a GPS tracker to stalk a former friend before shooting him to death in front of his mother as they stole his diamond jewelry, according to prosecutors and the victim’s heartbroken family. Welfy Espinal, 25, and Lenyn Toribio, 27, were charged in a federal indictment unsealed Friday with interstate stalking resulting in death... more