The New York Times

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%2 of 8
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.25%2 of 8
• 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.13%1 of 8
• Hedges the documented recordThe genocide in Gaza, the ICJ's findings, the ICC's warrants or the illegality of the occupation and the settlements are written as allegation, as disputed, or not at all where the article turns on them. In an opinion piece, a direct denial of the record is a false_claim citing the record, not this technique.13%1 of 8
• Hides who did itThe actor of a killing or a harm is taken out of the sentence (were killed in a strike, an explosion hit, a building collapsed) when the article itself, the coverage or the record shows who did it.13%1 of 8
• 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%1 of 8

Its most framed articles

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

1. 6.0Israel Has Committed Genocidal Acts in Gaza Since Cease-Fire, U.N. Human Rights Panel SaysThe New York Times reports the UN commission's finding that Israel kept committing genocidal acts in Gaza after the cease-fire, and it names Israeli fire as the cause of the 1,431 deaths.
2. 3.0Israel Lists 170 Killed in Gaza It Says Were Militants Posing as Media WorkersThe New York Times reports the Israeli military's list of 170 people it says were militants posing as journalists, and it attributes that claim carefully, setting it against the Committee to Protect Journalists' records.
3. 3.0On This Day, Oct. 7: In 2023, Hamas-led Militants Launched Surprise Attacks on IsraelThe Learning Network reprints the opening of its 7 October 2023 front-page report on the Hamas-led attack, alongside other anniversaries.
4. 3.0Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeThe New York Times reports Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize and says plainly that the UN commission she led found Israel had committed genocide.