Speaker summary
42%11 analyzed articles/videos345 analyzed words
BS Summary: These States Newsroom results contain 8 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and False Dilemma, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 10.7% saturation with 37 hits. Analysis detected 290 faulty-reasoning hits from 345 analyzed words across 11 articles, generating a BS Score of 10.5% and a BS Rank of 14% (38,826 of 45,120 speakers). This States Newsroom is better (less manipulative) than 86.10% of the peer group.
States Newsroom

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

14% percentile
025507510013.9% percentile
10.5% BS Score11 analyzed videos345 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 10.4%10.4%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 10.7%10.7%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 10.4%10.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 10.4%10.4%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Speaker 10.4%10.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)Sitewide 3.3%Speaker 10.4%10.4%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 10.7%10.7%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 10.4%10.4%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 19.2%Indoctrination: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 0.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 3.7%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 5.3%False Dilemma: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 3.3%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Hillsborough Republicans vie to try to defeat Kathy Castor after 20 years in Congress26%
Creative Loafing Tampa20%By Mitch Perry30% Florida Phoenix44%8/7/2026, 2:42:02 PM
Courts rule Trump administration can’t cancel $22B in climate grants5%
Daily Montanan37%By Nada Hassanein27%8/7/2026, 1:39:34 PM
Western wildfire could be latest climate disaster to unsettle property insurance market53%
Daily Montanan37%By Alex Brown62%8/7/2026, 11:37:59 AM
Pasco state Rep. Kevin Steele faces questions over his race to represent Hillsborough County in congress9%
Creative Loafing Tampa20%By Mitch Perry30% Florida Phoenix44%8/6/2026, 10:23:45 AM
Most states temporarily house foster children in hotels, offices22%
Daily Montanan37%By Robbie Sequeira11%8/5/2026, 4:32:53 AM
Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows29%
Daily Montanan37%By Kelcie Moseley-Morris43%8/3/2026, 3:34:47 PM
As national death rate dips, some states did better than others35%
Daily Montanan37%By Tim Henderson39%7/31/2026, 4:53:45 AM
Obamacare enrollment declines in 49 states18%
Daily Montanan37%By Shalina Chatlani31%7/30/2026, 11:10:28 AM
String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance42%
Daily Montanan37%By Jennifer Shutt40%7/30/2026, 10:03:38 AM
Feds have a new teen pregnancy prevention plan: Fertility and ‘reproductive goals’26%
The Denver Post30%By Tribune News Service42%7/24/2026, 11:53:01 AM