The Scotsman

Where the score comes from

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

• Leaves out the climate linkAn extreme heat, wildfire weather, drought, extreme rainfall, tropical cyclone or marine heatwave story with no word that warming makes such events worse.38%5 of 13
• Hides who the source isAn anti-climate-policy campaign or a fossil fuel trade body on the climate register's organisation list is quoted without saying what it is.31%4 of 13
• 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.15%2 of 13
• 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.8%1 of 13
• 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.8%1 of 13
• 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%1 of 13
• 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.8%1 of 13

Its most framed articles

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

1. 7.330,000 without power as Storm Boelo batters Scotland with 82mph gustsThe Scotsman opens with a figure of more than 80,000 homes without power that its own headline and its own sourced company figures contradict: they add up to about 30,000.
2. 6.0Tribute to man killed by falling tree in Dumfries and Galloway during Storm BoeloThe Scotsman reports the death of Richard Baines, the Logan Botanic Garden curator killed by a falling tree during Storm Boelo, along with power cuts, school closures and flood warnings.
3. 6.0Tens of thousands without power and one man dead after Storm Boelo batters ScotlandThe Scotsman reports a storm that killed a man, cut power to around 53,000 homes and flooded towns along the west coast.
4. 6.0North Sea revival risks being scuppered despite Jackdaw decisionThe Scotsman gives a fair and well-sourced account of the politics around Jackdaw and Rosebank, with critical voices on jobs, energy security and emissions.