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Same story, different headlines

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.

6 articles · 5 publishers

Fake pollster Wedgewood admits fabricated surveys as 'social experiment'

Stands out
ZeroHedge (negative, tabloid, loaded, one-sided).
Plainest
Newsweek and TIME.

Where the outlets diverge

Two headlines from opposite ends

  1. Sensationalism · Measured → Sensational

    MeasuredHow a Fake Pollster May Have Hurt Real CandidatesTIME TabloidNate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating HoaxZeroHedge

  2. Slant · Straight → One-sided

    StraightWorst Nathan for You–Style Scheme Ever? A Polling Company Claimed Its Fake Polls Were a Social Experiment.Reason One-sidedNate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating HoaxZeroHedge
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