BS Summary: These Chicago Sun-Times results contain 43 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 9.4% saturation with 1,597 hits. Analysis detected 11,675 faulty-reasoning hits from 17,042 analyzed words across 10 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠35% (107 of 164 publications). This Chicago Sun-Times is better (less manipulative) than 65.00% of the peer group.

Chicago Sun-Times

Publication ranking list

Percentile	Publication	BS Score
⁠0%	Houston Chronicle	1%
⁠1%	FactCheck.org	1%
⁠2%	@politifact	1%
⁠2%	WIRED	1%
⁠3%	Business Insider	2%
⁠35%	Chicago Sun-Times (selected)	2%
⁠98%	The Franklin Prosperity Report	7%
⁠99%	Louisville Public Media	7%
⁠99%	CBC Gem	7%
⁠100%	MS NOW Insights Community	28%
⁠100%	MS NOW Live Events	32%

Publication details

Total words: 17,042

Article count: 10

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Attribute Prevalence (Top 48)

Chicago Sun-Times attribute prevalence percentages (biases/fallacies), sorted highest to lowest.

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Chicago Sun-Times vs All Other Publications

Chicago Sun-Times attribute percentages, with an overlaid baseline for all publications (Overall) for those same attributes.

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