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US Monitoring Suspected Plague Case in Russia After Lab Worker Death
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The U.S. is monitoring reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, after a lab worker died. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is closely watching the situation, with quarantine measures in place at several hospitals.
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How the outlets frame it
4 outlets, each read from its own headline and opening- Stands outNew York Post (mildly sensational, one-sided) and ZeroHedge (negative, mildly sensational, loaded).
- PlainestThe Guardian and The Hill.
Tap a logo to see the outlet, the headline it was read from, and where it sits on every measure.
Does the report cast the development as bad news or good news?
Split: New York Post and ZeroHedge read as negative; The Guardian and The Hill as mostly neutral.
Does the report play the story up to grab attention?
Split: The Guardian and The Hill read as measured; New York Post and ZeroHedge as mildly sensational.
Do the words judge rather than describe?
ZeroHedge stands apart as loaded; the other 3 read as neutral wording.
Does the report give room to one side only?
Only New York Post could be placed, as one-sided.
3 outlets not placed: the reading was split between distant levels.
All 4 outlets and the headlines they were read from
New York Post
Trump calls reported pneumatic plague outbreak ‘big problem for Russia’: ‘The microbes and the germs have gotten stronger’Framing: Negative · Sensationalism: Mildly sensational · Loaded language: Neutral wording · Slant: One-sided
The Guardian
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who ‘possibly’ died of plague in Siberia, says RubioFraming: Leans negative · Sensationalism: Measured · Loaded language: Neutral wording · Slant: not placed
The Hill
Trump administration monitoring suspected Russian plague outbreakFraming: Neutral · Sensationalism: Measured · Loaded language: Neutral wording · Slant: not placed
ZeroHedge
Russian Lab Worker's Abrupt Death Sparks Plague Crisis Concerns; Trump Team "Monitoring Outbreak"Framing: Negative · Sensationalism: Mildly sensational · Loaded language: Loaded · Slant: not placed
Each outlet is read blind: a classifier sees its headline and opening next to the story's own headline, without the outlet's name, and scores how the report presents the story. A logo sits at the classifier's average reading, so it can fall between two levels. These readings compare coverage of this story only; they are not ratings of the outlets.
Where the outlets diverge
Two headlines from opposite endsSensationalism · Measured → Sensational
Loaded language · Neutral → Loaded
The story as a whole
Read from all the reports togetherUnverified claim
Other signals
9 found · 13 not present- Article typeNews report
- TopicHealth and medicine
- Where it happensRussia and Central Asia
- What a reader getsNew facts
- Main political actorA government agency
- Humanitarian impactCivilian casualties
- Public safetyA health risk to a group
- Public healthAn outbreak or disease
- Scientific evidenceAnecdote or single case
- Policy areanot present
- Government levelnot present
- Tonenot present
- Viewpoints presentednot present
- Civil liberties questionnot present
- Market relevancenot present
- Which marketunclear
- Market horizonnot present
- Who is economically affectednot present
- Corporate dimensionnot present
- Conflict dimensionnot present
- Conflict direction reportednot present
- Legal risk in the reportingnot present
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