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We read each outlet's headline and opening without its name and place it on four measures: sensationalism, loaded language, slant and framing. These are the outlets that sit furthest apart on this story.

7 articles · 6 publishers

Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor of 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies at 93

Stands out
NBC News (some charged words), The New York Times (some charged words) and PBS NewsHour (some charged words).
Plainest
NPR and CBS News.

Where the outlets diverge

Two headlines from opposite ends

  1. Loaded language · Neutral → Loaded

    Neutral wordingActor Tom Skerritt, who played dads, cops and commanding officers, has diedNPR Some charged wordsHollywood remembers actor Tom SkerrittNBC News
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