LBC

Where the score comes from

Each technique the reading found, as a share of its articles. Tap one to read the passages.

• Leaves out what changes the pictureThe article leaves out a fact about the event it reports, which the outlet had or other outlets reported about the same event, and without it a reader believes something false about that event. Background the article is not about (overall tolls, the wider crisis) is not this technique.25%6 of 24
• Headline goes beyond the articleThe headline states what the body does not support, drops the attribution the body gives, or puts in quotation marks words nobody in the article said.17%4 of 24
• One side gets the spaceOne side's voices fill the article when the story concerns both, and the other side appears only as numbers or not at all.13%3 of 24
• Uses figures that misleadA number presented so it misleads: the wrong base, a cherry-picked period, a share passed off as a total, or a figure the article's own source contradicts.13%3 of 24
• States one side's claim as factA party's contested claim is written in the outlet's own voice with no attribution, so the reader takes it as established.8%2 of 24
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.8%2 of 24
• Gives a contested claim the last wordA party's claim ends a passage or the article with nothing against it, when the article itself, the coverage or the record shows it is contested.4%1 of 24

Its most framed articles

From the last 90 days. Open one to read it with every flagged sentence marked.

1. 6.0Burnham calls for 'honest discussion' about free movement between UK and EULBC reports Andy Burnham's call for an honest discussion on free movement fairly, attributing his words and those of Nigel Farage and Chris Philp.
2. 6.0'We could buy them all houses': Nick Ferrari stunned as minister reveals £190,000 per-head cost of ending homelessnessLBC's headline says a minister revealed a £190,000 per-head cost of ending homelessness.
3. 6.0Gambling firms backlash after Chancellor hits them with tax riseLBC reports the Chancellor's rise in Machine Games Duty, then states the gambling industry's predictions of harm to bookmakers, racing and jobs in its own voice, as if they were settled.
4. 3.0Everyone sleeping rough to be given route off the streets by Christmas, Burnham vowsLBC gives a plain account of Andy Burnham's plan to double rough sleeping funding, with the figures attributed and the 4,793 count given with its date and base.